This is the first in a series of programs that will play representative music from 100 years of jazz history. We will explore the broad sweep of that narrative; its representative and its ...

Fortnight ago in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid ...

One hundred years ago this week, five New Orleans musicians made the first recording of a new genre of music unknown to most of the nation. “Livery Stable Blues,” the first studio number scratched ...

New Orleans trumpet player and composer Jimmy LaRocca died over the weekend. Jimmy‘s father, also a trumpet player, Nick LaRocca, was the leader of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first recorded ...

Jazz; performed by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Production notes: Originally recorded Feb. 26, 1917-July 17, 1918, in New York. Dixie Jass Band one-step --Livery stable blues --Skeleton jangle ...

“Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation . . . We are musical anarchists.” Thus Cornetist Nick LaRocca defined the new music he and other members of the Original Dixieland ...