Towards the end, this sounds amazingly like a lot of Spike Jones's stuff.... didn't notice the connection before now, but its pretty obvious once you see it!! BOTH are pure genius, i hasten to add!!
lets not criticize any music, rap, hip hop, or any pother modern music just listen to the music you like. cant expect everyone to like the same kind you like.
I have apperciation for this kind of music and 1920 singers like Gene Austin, but all the kids say "Oh wow, you listen to that, you have no taste in music." REALLY? they critizie what i listen to and say its crapm, they the ones who are listeing to rap and singers who are only singers for their looks.
This is from a golden time. Quality music remained a viable commercial entity until well after World War II. Then, there was a bizarre perversion of popular taste which the recording industry pursued. So ironically, the commercial interests of the music industry, which had first brought great recorded music to the masses, was also the instrument of its destruction.
Could you tell me what the 1st & 3rd tracks are called please? I believe the middle one is Tiger Rag, but have never heard the other 2 before. Brilliant stuff. I was "brought up" on stuff like this as my father was a musician in a trad. jazz band & so our home was usually filled with music of the Firehouse Five & the like. Great sound. Thanks for posting.
most people don't know that lots of these pieces were actually written out and then later memorized during rehearsals, so the band could perform without music.
@mulletchuck no... i's the other way around - for the odjb and many other jazz artists: first they jammed and found a new tune, only after the issues of the phonographdiscs there were pianoarrangements produced for selling.
@alexanderetter - you're both right, in a way. It was just about this time (1920 in the UK) that these bands realized they'd get a tighter sound with written music than from just publicly jamming night after night. To me it's the best jazz because they FOUND the best combinations of notes & then wrote it all down to preserve that 'best' sound forever!
I added this to my 1917 playlist, one of 111 lists that let you hear any year since 1900 like you're THERE! I've got over 500 playlists for you!
i like this music - jazz - because you're unable to give a definition about it. it is nor white, nor black. it is and was american but very fast also international. early jazz is the point where a folk music of a minority became international pop music. but this minority is so different in itself that you're unable to say first were the blacks and then the whites and so on. it is a magical mix of culture that fascinates people until this day.
It's not dead yet folks as long as there are people like to love it and keep it alive... I'm 80 and just getting back to the MUSIC!, taking 'bone lessons!
Great to listen to this music. It brings back great memories of my dad and his music. He had a Dixieland Band (Original Maryland Five). He and his band played the New York area and I was told they were as good as the Memphis 5. Dad was sorry he never recorded anything. All we have left is a picture of the bank. Thanks for the great music.
My great-uncle was Henry Ragas. While going through photos after Katrina my mother gave my son (who studied piano for a year) a photo of Henry with the band. Henry is buried in St. Louis cemetery on Claiborne St.
No. But they were his main influence and he was a big fan. They were the ones who introduced him to Jass and got him interested in it. They were the ones who introduced most people outside of New Orleans to Jass and got them interested in it. They started the "Jazz Age" of the 1920s.
Dixieland really helped to really make the Jazz genre take off. Like Rock in the second half of the 20th century, Jazz went through very artistic forms before reaching final maturity in 1959 with the last grat albums. The Clarinet, sadly, is almost nonexistant on the radio these days.
Towards the end, this sounds amazingly like a lot of Spike Jones's stuff.... didn't notice the connection before now, but its pretty obvious once you see it!! BOTH are pure genius, i hasten to add!!
altareggo 3 months ago
Andrewjazz61: I can't believe you don't tell us what the name of this song is. Is this the flip side of "Livery Stable Blues"?
tahoeshgrl 3 months ago
lets not criticize any music, rap, hip hop, or any pother modern music just listen to the music you like. cant expect everyone to like the same kind you like.
GoldPockets 7 months ago
I have apperciation for this kind of music and 1920 singers like Gene Austin, but all the kids say "Oh wow, you listen to that, you have no taste in music." REALLY? they critizie what i listen to and say its crapm, they the ones who are listeing to rap and singers who are only singers for their looks.
LOVECHRISDREW123 7 months ago
This is from a golden time. Quality music remained a viable commercial entity until well after World War II. Then, there was a bizarre perversion of popular taste which the recording industry pursued. So ironically, the commercial interests of the music industry, which had first brought great recorded music to the masses, was also the instrument of its destruction.
Dannys998877 10 months ago
This is Ostrich Walk
klikonojazz 10 months ago
I was born in wrong century
kubok275 10 months ago
@kubok275 You were born after 2000? lol...
tahoeshgrl 3 months ago
@tahoeshgrl No but I think to enjoy this music I should be born around 1890.
kubok275 3 months ago
ohhhhh myyy godddddddddd!! I LOVE THIS!!! ^^
nosferatuist 11 months ago
Could you tell me what the 1st & 3rd tracks are called please? I believe the middle one is Tiger Rag, but have never heard the other 2 before. Brilliant stuff. I was "brought up" on stuff like this as my father was a musician in a trad. jazz band & so our home was usually filled with music of the Firehouse Five & the like. Great sound. Thanks for posting.
MustaffaCuppa 1 year ago
@MustaffaCuppa
Ostrich Walk, Tiger Rag, At the Jazz Band Ball. Hope that helps!
ChristopherDB83 1 year ago
wowww have been looking for this for ages. love it
Wilxtinarg86 1 year ago
Love it!!!! Those guys could play.
beat80cj 1 year ago
Dixieland rules my world! 'S FUN!!!
TheDrkKnght1988 1 year ago 3
REAL B I G MUSIC!!!! ^ ^
nosferatuist 1 year ago
most people don't know that lots of these pieces were actually written out and then later memorized during rehearsals, so the band could perform without music.
mulletchuck 1 year ago
@mulletchuck no... i's the other way around - for the odjb and many other jazz artists: first they jammed and found a new tune, only after the issues of the phonographdiscs there were pianoarrangements produced for selling.
alexanderetter 1 year ago
@alexanderetter - you're both right, in a way. It was just about this time (1920 in the UK) that these bands realized they'd get a tighter sound with written music than from just publicly jamming night after night. To me it's the best jazz because they FOUND the best combinations of notes & then wrote it all down to preserve that 'best' sound forever!
I added this to my 1917 playlist, one of 111 lists that let you hear any year since 1900 like you're THERE! I've got over 500 playlists for you!
chkjns 1 year ago
This is so Old 93 years ago !
Maguirearch 1 year ago
@Maguirearch yeah and most kids cant do this... sad.
WilAzzamEdison 1 year ago
i like this music - jazz - because you're unable to give a definition about it. it is nor white, nor black. it is and was american but very fast also international. early jazz is the point where a folk music of a minority became international pop music. but this minority is so different in itself that you're unable to say first were the blacks and then the whites and so on. it is a magical mix of culture that fascinates people until this day.
alexanderetter 1 year ago
really wanna go back in the days
Radculas 1 year ago
It's not dead yet folks as long as there are people like to love it and keep it alive... I'm 80 and just getting back to the MUSIC!, taking 'bone lessons!
MarinerCayPilot 1 year ago
Holy Crap!....What absolute treasures you've posted here! Thanks MUCH!
gjc82071 2 years ago
ellensaxlund is so right !!!!!!!!!! There is
wonderful music to hear from 1900s/20s/
30s/40s/50s/60s/ and then it begins to
vanish like a majic spell until the idiotic
nonsense of rap and vocal exercises by
the likes of that Carey woman et all....
stringbass 2 years ago
when i listen to this music i feel so sorry for living today, surrounded by stupid teenagers that listens to rihanna and 50 cent :(
ellensaxlund 2 years ago 35
@ellensaxlund
well said and perfectly correct !!!!!!
stringbass 2 years ago
@ellensaxlund i absolutely agree with you
heinzsanyo 1 year ago
@ellensaxlund Stupid Males run Mindlessly rampant.. they suck dick.
WilAzzamEdison 1 year ago
@ellensaxlund If you were intelligent enough you would not generailze
tkinbk 1 year ago
@ellensaxlund Yeah, it's probably because this was before there were SECRET SOCIETIES
fully had control over the music industry... :(
Ruttie2 10 months ago
Music sucks nowadays
junkmailboy1000 2 years ago 16
@junkmailboy1000 No. Mainstream music sucks.
franktyrell 1 year ago
@junkmailboy1000 yes it does.
WilAzzamEdison 1 year ago
@junkmailboy1000
you do relize what this song is about right
GraciaTherin 5 months ago
Ah, this are the mysteriously Aeolian Vocalion recordings with their hill-and-dale-system:-)
alexanderetter 2 years ago
Man, I wish I were alive then. I was born about 70 years too late though :(
AltonBrown4ever 2 years ago 2
Great to listen to this music. It brings back great memories of my dad and his music. He had a Dixieland Band (Original Maryland Five). He and his band played the New York area and I was told they were as good as the Memphis 5. Dad was sorry he never recorded anything. All we have left is a picture of the bank. Thanks for the great music.
justice8888 2 years ago 2
My Grandparents were in a Jazz Band,RIP.This is the music of my childhood,truly classic
slingblade98 3 years ago
Are you serious? My grandpa is Nick La Rocca, do you still live in neworleans?
E9LaRocca 3 years ago
My great-uncle was Henry Ragas. While going through photos after Katrina my mother gave my son (who studied piano for a year) a photo of Henry with the band. Henry is buried in St. Louis cemetery on Claiborne St.
turnkeyservicepro 2 years ago
Yes, I am still in New Orleans. Even if I left tomorrow I would always hear the call to return home.
turnkeyservicepro 2 years ago
Wasn't Bix part of the ODJB?
thbeatgozon 3 years ago
No. But they were his main influence and he was a big fan. They were the ones who introduced him to Jass and got him interested in it. They were the ones who introduced most people outside of New Orleans to Jass and got them interested in it. They started the "Jazz Age" of the 1920s.
whateverfukinever 3 years ago 2
Wish I could have been alive then! What a nice time of life! :)
thbeatgozon 3 years ago
andrew, could you post the reverse of this album? I,d never heard of the louisiana five before. they are a great group inthe odjb style.
LesSwattum 3 years ago
Dixieland really helped to really make the Jazz genre take off. Like Rock in the second half of the 20th century, Jazz went through very artistic forms before reaching final maturity in 1959 with the last grat albums. The Clarinet, sadly, is almost nonexistant on the radio these days.
pannoni1 3 years ago
Jettison your chastity belts! Jazz is here!
whizbang47 3 years ago