Original Dixieland Jass Band - Livery Stable Blues (1917)

[loggeorge]

Κοροιδα θα θελατε να εισαστε το ατομο που σκουπιζε τα παπουτσια τους;

[Maccied00dle]

hate this pop music.... so mainstream...

[kubok275]

This was used in Boardwalk Empire 01x01

[jonathanaccardo1]

a 1.25 fantastico

[MRaje1]

this song shows that 50 cent is the best musician EVER .

[TheUnbreakableOtaku]

The recording that started it all.

[Missjonib]

I have this 78 in my collection! Good stuff!

[Shagofull]

fuck reggaeton. original dixieland jazz band lives forever...

[n64wilbert]

LOL from OBJB to Coltrane to Return to forever

[515742617000027]

jajajaja niggers

[Grouchy2day]

Give these guys some credit. They were a successful band, they made a lot of records and inspired a lot of future musicians. Bix Beiderbecke was inspired to take up cornet when he heard the band's Victor recordings of Skeleton Jangle/Tiger Rag for instance. Yes, Nick LaRocca was a jerk but we shouldn't let one man's biased opinion ruin the importance of these recordings.

[piccinini02]

I`m suppose to like this tune (and I do), but Nick LaRoca`s sentence about Jazz made me sad: "Black people had nothing to do with Jazz. We invented it and them learned from us." Sad, isnt it?

[coyotebongwater]

this is my favorite 50 cent song

[ScarlettMoss]

@coyotebongwater LOL



[mkworkman]

3:11 YouTube audio: New Orleans' Original Dixieland Jass Band; February 26, 1917, recording of "Livery Stable Blues," the first jazz recording ever released.

[Ken9Skinner]

In 1907,"Vesti la giubba" (Victrola 88061) Was The Very First Recording In The World To Sell One Million Copies.

[Ken9Skinner]

Let's face it kids, once they started recording black people making black music the ODJB wasn't as interesting to the public.

[Grouchy2day]

@Ken9Skinner, black people were making records as far back as 1891. Check out a 2 CD set called "Lost Sounds: Blacks And The Birth Of The Recording Industry 1891-1922 (Archeophone Records 1005). Includes a lot of rare materialby various bands, quartettes, singers (such as George W; Johnson), politicians (Booker T. Washington) and even Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champ even made a record!

[Ken9Skinner]

Very talented mimics of black music.

[danidani1919]

Very good music . No matter where it originated. :D

[BobE1945]

How great is this. I see the purists and reverse racists commenting adversely, but - wow this is the first hot jazz the world had ever heard in recorded form!

To be able, in this age of egotistical rappers who don't deserve a feed in my book, to listen to the ODJB online is just magic!

Don't forget they had the very first million seller.

And then the world discovered King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. And the rest, they say, is history :-D))))

[AshenJustice]

Look at it this way - "Dixieland" was a term coined by white people. Black people never wanted New Orleans jazz to be called Dixieland, considering all the racist connotations "Dixie" contained. Black people invented jazz. Black people invented what we now know as Dixieland jazz. But as of yet, "Dixieland" as a term had not been properly claimed as a title; in this way, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band has some merit as a title. They weren't the first to play it, but the first to take the title.

[21stOPFOR]

@AshenJustice Very close, but it was not "invented" just by black people, although they did play the significant role in it. It was initally associated with "poor people", not just blacks. It was not really invented, as it is simply a combination of music from their cultures and the region- African American, French, Spanish, and Irish, to form their own unique sound to call their own.

[MrElfro89]

@AshenJustice black musicians actually embraced many racial slogans and terms and turned them into jokes, such as with song titles like "all these coons look the same to me"

[carlawon]

another example of white people stealing from blacks durring that time. they may have been the first to record, but sure as hell didnt invent it.

[carlawon]

and these white mo fo's claim to invent jazz? what a fucking joke!

[TeddyLopez1]

Jass epic fail

[Jclapt38]

@TeddyLopez1 It was actually spelled "jass" and "jas" for a while. The story goes that when the Original Dixieland Jass Band was in NYC, they had to change it to "Jazz" because kids were scratching out the "J"s on the posters; and nobody wants to be the "Original Dixieland Ass Band."

[dinmolle]

@Jclapt38 i've learned the same thing in school^^

[RandalBauer11]

I would like to thank my college music teacher for introducing me to the 'Livery Stable Blues.' :D

[dhinz23]

Damn, that is freaking awesome!

[450984]

50 cent couldn't set up the chairs for these guys!!!

GET REAL!

[GlenAnne99]

Wow! What a great video! I love all kinds of music and this is great to hear and interesting as well.

Thank You for sharing, Mike...enjoyed this very much :)

Annie

[eighthavenue]

As a family member of Nick's thank for posting!! 

[cholocharile]

The earliest jazz artist I know of is Buddy Bolden, who played from 1900 till about 1907, when he was institutionalized for schizophrenia.

[caloscalante1518]

@cholocharile Yeah Buddy Bolden gets credit for starting Jazz.

[PotatoManTada]

I just realized that by adding two letters to the abreviation of the band's name, you get the name of the 007 henchmen, Odd Job. Coincidence?! I'm sure it is, but i still had to point it out.

[bobobosh]

Gosh, i can't believe i have to do a project on the history of this shit. If there's one thing that's more worthless than history, it's the history of MUSIC... pointless shit....waste of time.... (mumble, mumble, mumble).......... You get the point........

[passthedjembe]

@bobobosh I hope you're not serious. Because if you are, what a waste.

[nomokokoa]

@bobobosh I hope you die of anime poisoning

[caloscalante1518]

@bobobosh LMAO wow somebody is lost. All I can say is i truly feel sorry for you.

[TheDrkKnght1988]

Dixieland rules my world! This is joy!

[johnnyarvik]

i've heard that this was the first Jazz recording ever made, is this true?

[ryanmooney92]

@johnnyarvik yeh this was the first ever jazz recording, done on feb 26, 1917

[VINCEWALLACE]

not the best jazz i ever lisend to

[ultimateinfinite]

dis isnt 50 cent!1 wtf??!11

[HYAAALP]

How could you even think this was 50 Cent? He sure didn't play JAZZ, let alone in 1917.

[ultimateinfinite]

Actually, 50 cent started off his life as a street singer, performing bottleneck blues on his old resonator.

[anchower]

@HYAAALP Au contraire.  Fiddy invented jass in 1912.

[caloscalante1518]

@HYAAALP He could not play jazz now even if he tried. lol

[51362879]

@HYAAALP And besides, these guys had talent!

[shnaz2]

@HYAAALP are you really that stupid? of COURSE this isnt 50 cent its called "sarcasm" its a word in the english dictionary, look it up. dont be so stupid. it was a joke. fucking dumbass. holy shit. carnavals. oscar peterson is the greatest pianist of all time. or maybe art tatum who knows. but seriously Sarcasm look it up.

[coyotebongwater]

@HYAAALP you obviously aren't a big 50 cent fan

[eldeano1]

@HYAAALP you clearly haven't read his autobiography

[TheManolitoh]

@HYAAALP Maybe he meant it as a reference to jukeboxes (not likely though)

[1919Fan19]

Excellent Recording!! True Classic!!

[archijugglebald]

Jass band?

[GuyKornowski]

Originally "Jazz" music was called "Jass"

[casabalsotti]

primordiali e fantastici...tra l'altro il trobettista è italiano! Nick La Rocca.....Spettacolo

[archijugglebald]

Very bad grammered

[theAfrosteve]

@archijugglebald just like you



[martinarecchia]

very god gob odjb

[Celluloidwatcher]

Great introductory jazz recording...I won't get involved in the debates concerning the genre. I'll let the debaters do their thing. I, for one, respect individual talent, here.

[MoleDFigg]

Nice posting.

[HepCat215]

Larry Shields was just incredible. One of, if not the, greatest jazz clarinettists of all time.

[alexanderetter]

it is dangerous to say things like that. certenly he was a great player. but you don't have to forgett a lot of others. george lewis and so on...

[ryanrosenq]

huge bass drum

[ichhaltunso]

Voll schlecht man scheiß Jazz

[biodegradabl]

it's ridiculous to pinpoint who invented jass, it is a syncretic genre of music so when does it all start? Jelly Roll? Who knows?! it's impossible to say one person started it all!

[skum723]

well stated biodegradabl...not "the start of it all", definitely not Dominick Larocca, certainly not started by a sicilian...and not jelly roll...the only intelligent comment was posted by marvalhat

[trumpetchick92]

I'm currently taking a History of Jazz class at my school and my director says that Jelly Roll claimed to be the inventor but he really wasnt... Jazz is a music that is a mix of African-American spirituals and European music I believe, in which a style of improvisation is used. Some people have been credited with the invention of Jazz, but Jelly Roll isn't the creator.

[hobojoe9127]

Didn't Buddy Bolden lead the first Jazz band?

[alexanderetter]

yes he did. but at that time it was just a normal dance band. the name "jass" was given to the music the odjb made. they were also the first to record this kind of music wich existed without doubt in a similar form before but didn't had this name. before it was named ragtime or circus music or dancemusic... or whatever...

[caloscalante1518]

@trumpetchick92 True. The credit for "inventing" or rather creating the Jazz sound goes to Buddy Bolden. What sucks is that no recording of him survive. Imagine hearing Buddy Bolden??

[dancingwithfrogs]

It seems to have been an Italian who actually invented Jazz: Dominick LaRocca.

[petecatz]

Actually not Italian....but Sicilian! that's right!

[HarborGuy]

The start of it all.....thanks for posting.

[DealTurtle]

@HarborGuy They tried to claim they invented jazz, but their input to jazz was not virtuosity, innovation, or invention of a style, what they did was proto-commercialize the music, and spread it to the white youth of America outside of New Orleans, much like in the way of the Rock and Roll Era.  Check out works by Ingrid Monson, or Court Carney to name a couple.

[HarborGuy]

@DealTurtle - I always thought Jelly Roll Morton did that cause he was the first to write the arrangements down in the l920's.........N E way these guys "broke the ice" for the what was to come...................

[DealTurtle]

@HarborGuy Yeah I think Jelly Roll Morton also claimed to invent it, lol. I think he says it on the Alan Lomax Library of Congress interviews. Yes I would say that Morton was key in spreading the music outside of New Orleans; the ODJB just really opened it up to the more white audience outside N.O. from what I understand.

[marvalhat]

Thanks for posting such a classic!