The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz record ever issued. The group composed and recorded many jazz standards, the most famous being "Tiger Rag". In late 1917, the spelling of the band's name was changed to Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
The band consisted of five musicians who had played in the Papa Jack Laine bands.
ODJB billed itself as the Creators of Jazz. It was the first band to record jazz commercially and to have hit recordings in the genre. Band leader and cornetist Nick LaRocca argued that ODJB deserved recognition as the first band to record jazz commercially and the first band to establish jazz as a musical idiom or genre.
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The Jazz band influenced many artists including Ron Geesin, an artist that Peel used to play in the 60's, who was a pianist with The Original Downtown Syncopators (ODS), a revivalist jazz band emulating the American Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Although Peel didn't seem to play much of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's material on his shows, he seemed to acknowledge them to add their Tiger Rag track as one of the tunes for the Peelenium 1919.
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- 29 June 1999: Tiger Rag (Peelenium 1919)