Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a New Orleans band that made the first jazz recording in 1917. The group made the first recordings of many jazz standards, probably the most famous being "Tiger ...

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 ...

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's first recording in Feb. 1917 is often cited as the first jazz record ever, but critic Kevin Whitehead says that the roots of jazz stretch a little further back. This ...

The single “Original Dixieland One-Step,” from Firecracker Jazz Band’s new album, Return to the Twenties, was filmed at Echo Mountain Recording while tracking that project. The song, first recorded by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1984, Phil Bickel and a Consumers Power co-worker unexpectedly discovered a mutual interest in Dixieland jazz. "We made a list of employee musicians we knew for a band," Bickel said. "Except a ...