At the Jazz Band Ball

Original Dixieland Jazz Band · 1917 · Face B de Barnyard Blues, Aeolian Vocalion

Context

A composition by Nick LaRocca and Larry Shields, first recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band on September 3, 1917 in New York for Aeolian Vocalion (A1205), then re-recorded for Victor on March 19, 1918 and in London for Columbia in April 1919. Published in 1928, it is among the most covered themes of traditional jazz, from Bix Beiderbecke (1927) to Crosby and Armstrong (1960).

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Dixieland (ODJB, 1917). Among the origins and influences of Dixieland: New Orleans jazz.

By the same artist

• Clarinet Marmalade (1918)

Sources

• EN: At the Jazz Band Ball
• EN: Original Dixieland Jass Band

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