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Original Dixieland Jazz Band

American musical group

Also known as: ODJB, Original Dixieland Jass Band

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history of Dixieland

In Dixieland
…Laine’s band when forming the Original Dixieland Jazz (originally “Jass”) Band (ODJB) in 1916. A highly influential group, the ODJB also borrowed from the marching band tradition in employing the trumpet (or cornet), clarinet, and trombone as front-line instruments. The following year, the ODJB cut what is regarded as the…
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musical innovations

In jazz: Ragtime into jazz: the birth of jazz in New Orleans
…from New Orleans called the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Those recordings, with their entertaining but substanceless barnyard sound effects, present a misleading picture of true New Orleans jazz.
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