Oh no, Unregistere and his Black people invented Jazz and Jazz is 100% Black African moozic again?:rofl    Say hello to the first Jazz band, according to...LOUIS ARMSTRONG:D    They were also the first to call themselves a Jazz band(originally they spelled it Jass), and the first to record Jazz music in 1917. Their recordings became VERY popular in America and Europe, so popular in fact that they started a nationwide and even worldwide Jazz craze, the so-called Jazz Age which lasted from the time of their first Jazz recordings (the first ever) in 1917 up until 1930 when Big Band and Swing overtook Dixieland. Yes, that's right, the style of Jazz known as Dixieland aka New Orleans Jazz gets it's name from them as well because they were the ones who invented Dixieland, even Louis Armstong admitted that , he said no one played anything like them before they came along. That's why they changed their name from the Old Dixieland Jass Band to the Original Dixieland Jass/zz Band, because everyone started copying their style and they wanted people to know that they were the ORIGINAL.    Any speculation on Jazz music before the ODJB came along in 1909(according to Armstong) and before the ODJB's first recordings in 1917(first jazz recordings in history) is just that...SPECULATION. Nothing can be proven because it was never recorded. And what can be sure is that no one played Dixieland before they came along, if they did have some form of proto-jazz it would've been much different, probably not like what we would recognize as Jazz today. More like some form of Ragtime or hopped-up March music. Louis Armstrong even said they had a style like no one ever heard before, that style is now called Dixieland, the original Jazz :D     http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/3...7d4a5e.jpg?v=0   “Only four years before I learned to play the trumpet in the Waif´s Home, or  in 1909, the  first  great jazz orchestra was formed in New Orleans by a cornet player named Dominick James LaRocca.  They called him Nick LaRocca. His orchestra had only five pieces but  they were the hottest five pieces that had ever been known before.  LaRocca named this band, The Old Dixieland Jass Band.  He had an instrumentation different from anything before, an instrumentation that made the old songs sound new.  Besides himself at the cornet, LaRocca had Larry Shields, clarinet, Eddie Edwards, trombone, Ragas, piano, and Sbarbaro, drums. They all came to be famous players and the Dixieland Band has gone down now in musical history.”  -  Louis Armstrong , Swing That Music, 1936   http://books.google.com/books?id=Oq2...esult#PPA10,M1    Oh yeah...and in case you couldn't tell from the photo...they were all White guys and their leader, Nick LaRocca aka Joe Blade' was well known to be very racist.:D   In the 1950s when the MYTH/LIE that Jazz was started by negroes began being perpetuated and mainstreamed by the media he started writing tons of angry letters to the media claiming that they were liars and part of a Communist conspiracy.... he may have been on to something! Communist Jews trying to steal the White man's achievements and culture and accredit it to negroes as part of their anti-White agenda.