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| | 1917-1923 | | | Music Artist : | | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Epm Musique | | Release Date : | | 1996-02-22 | | Store Price : | | $10.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Livery Stable Blues
2. Dixie Jazz Band One-Step
3. Darktown Strutters' Ball
4. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
5. Barnyard Blues
6. Ostrich Walk
7. Tiger Rag
8. At the Jass Band Ball
9. Look at 'Em Doing It
10. Oriental Jazz
11. Reisenweber Rag
12. Skeleton Jangle
13. Bluin' the Blues
14. Fidgety Feet
15. Sensation Rag
16. Mournin' Blues
17. Clarinet Marmalade Blues
18. Lazy Daddy
19. Margie
20. Palesteena
21. Some of These Days
22. Toddlin' Blues
23. Tiger Rag
24. Barnyard Blues
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 You Can't Beat the Pioneers
Submitted on: 2006-05-19 |
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| All of these recordings by the ODJB set the paradigm for later recordings. In particular, we have their first l9l7 recordings, including those cut for Columbia before the Victor sides but not released until after--"Darktown..." and "Indiana". In addition, the l923 recordings give the historian their sound following their time at Reisenweber's in New York and their international success in England. My late friend, Tony Sparbaro, the band's drummer shared some of the highlights of this period, and the book on the band helps to fill in the details. This group and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings make a good case for the authenticity of white bands and their contributions to traditional jazz. |
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 The first Jazz records
Submitted on: 2004-10-24 |
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This cd contains one of the most important recordings of the century (no, that isn't hyperbole). "Livery stable blues" was the first recording of jazz on record. It was an ear popping experience to a population still living in a Victorian culture and was the beginning of the jazz era which would continue until the great depression of 1929. This piece still sounds wild, primitive and boisterous today - it was the unleashing of a potent force that would profoundly influence all music from that point on. I hate what jazz became but I love what early jazz was. It was dance music then and not the pseudo-cool/hipster/pseudo-intellectual/take itself too seriously garbage of later decades.
Some try to put down the Original dixieland Jazz Band because: 1) they were white (yep, anyone whose skin color is white and plays jazz or dance music is labeled a phony or a robber of black music. This is like calling any black person who does rock or pop a phony or robber of white culture (I guess Nat King Cole was a white culture robber? After all, crooning was white man's music). This type of racism ignores the fact that early white jazz is still palatable while early black jazz is unlistenable today. Early white dance music is melodic. Early black music now sounds pointlessly full of improvisation that is very tedious. 2) they claimed to have invented jazz. True, they exaggerated their place but their exaggerations are no wilder than every black musician in the south claiming to have invented rock and roll despite all evidence to the contrary. Besides, the Original dixieland band wrote much of their own music and even if they didn't invent jazz, they contributed a great deal to its music. These guys played great. These recordings are pre-electric recording and are primitive but are still very much worth listening to. |
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