Dixieland One-Step (1920)

[apfelstrudelmaster]

dixieland is the best form of jazz!!! :D

[jameswizard1]

lovely flowing beat on this version...

[jameswizard1]

ODJB is more stiff maybe?

[bixandtram]

This record is not supposed to exist -

Lopez And Hamilton's Kings Of Harmony Orchestra : Tommy Gott (tp) Harold Geiser (tb) Billy Hamilton (cl) Vincent Lopez (p,ldr) Tony White (d) New York, January 9, 1920

7099-C Bluin' the blues Ed 50662, Amb 4044, Riv (Du)RM8801

7100 Dixieland [Original dixieland one-step ?] (unissued)

7101-C Peggy Ed 50648, Amb 4006, Riv (Du)RM8801

[sandiegoimages]

Back in the 50's and early 60's I had the good fortune to take saxaphone and clarinet lesssons from Billy Hamilton---an amazing musician.

The picture in this clip is not the Hamilton Lopez Band but the music is.

gene wild

[willpn100]

At present, "dixieland" is the most "underground" form of jazz.

[Star0Crossed]

i know times were hard back then, but i wouldn't mind living in the decade for a week or so,and come back to 2011, just so i could fully apperaite the music more than i already do.

[flikanimation]

I love it!!!!!

[MustaffaCuppa]

You just can't help tapping your heel up & down to this lovely music can you! I've never heard this tune before, but I love it. Thanks for posting it. : - )

[Wilxtinarg86]

i love this!

[XXdrunkenxx87]

lol who needs college text books to appericaiate jazz when you got youtube

[harryhall1961]

Some modern day dubbing of Muzak for the young ones

[caroljm36]

The style is ragtime. Listen to the phrasing: it's still very ricky-ticky and doesn't swing, has a ragged march feel. But 1920 is still very early in the history of jazz recording. Pops will come along soon.

[cholocharile]

@caroljm36 I would call it more 'post-ragtime'. It's not quite ragtime and not quite Dixieland. Also, this is a few years past the heyday of the ragtime genre.

[lilpandamx]

Esto es un lujo para el corazón...

[igwane]

very good

[TheDrkKnght1988]

Dixieland makes me feel happy!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

This really is Ragtime & Blues.

[infrogmation]

This is what was popularly called jazz in the 1917 - 1921 era.

This is a cover record, clearly learned from the earlier recording of the number by the ODJB from New Orleans. The ODJB version has a jazzier more spontanious sound, but this plays it with a clearner attack and a certain charm.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Yeah, but I just like to joke that I listen to the original R & B. But clearly stated how someone can make that mistake.

[TheGinger48]

@infrogmation The "Original" Dixieland Jazz Band wasn't original at all, it was a bunch of white guys copying black music.

[plaguezxs]

This is NOT ragtime possibly blues I can never really tell the chords changes all that well, but I don't think it is. Dixieland is in its own genre really

[Morahman7vnNo2]

It's Jass! There, Happy!?

[plaguezxs]

Not really that ridiculously generic but I guess its not wrong

[TheGinger48]

@plaguezxs This is Dixieland, period. Black musicians playing dance music in the New Orleans style.

[23v0lv32]

wow. this is really cool

[danydj41]

SO COOL!!! THIS IS MUSIC!!!!!!

[alexanderetter]

the originalversion from the odjb is defenitly more jazzy. :-) .... whahtever jazzy means... more syncopated:-)

[hanaw79]

cool...

Sounds like the room getting in Black and White in my eyes while i'm listnning to this wonderful music from the Spirit of 20's :)

the world were so simple and beauty...

[zamg289]

Yeah so simple...the good ol' days of mob violence, mustard gas, lynch mobs, prohibition, imperialism, collapsing economies around the world, lack of civil rights, and other wonders! Apples and oranges...I don't think it was any better or worse than now, just different.

Yea, I know I'm a dick. Awesome music though! So lively.

[thelonelyslayer]

That is all true. But we just need to look at it in terms of the party scene at the time.

And those fools had it going on!!!!!!!!!!! :-D

I wish modern kids would try the charleston in todays clubs. The dancing they do...is not dancing. It's just lame.

[DarkSiteOfAngel]

cool :)

[moezartmusic]

Great Recording - but the photo is incorrect. Lopez and Hamilton's Kings of Harmony were a white band. Lopez was bandleader Vincent Lopez.

Mike Amato

[infrogmation]

Agreed. The photo looks to be of Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds, a completely different group of the same era.

[Corrie121]

Great! What style!

Thanks for posting.

[toughguypadilla]

one of the greatest first recordings in history :] love this song