  New Orleans music  The Bolden Band around 1905. The music of New Orleans had a profound effect on the creation of early jazz. Many early jazz performers played in the brothels and bars of red-light district around Basin Street called Storyville.[17] This is of course, all very true.    In addition, numerous marching bands played at lavish funerals arranged by the African American community.   Also true. Did Blacks invent Marching Band music? Is it from Africa?:D    The instruments used in marching bands and dance bands became the basic instruments of jazz:   Indeed so. Were they African instruments?    brass and reeds tuned in the European 12-tone scale   European huh?;)    Small bands of primarily self-taught African American musicians, many of whom came from the funeral-procession tradition of New Orleans, played a seminal role in the development and dissemination of early jazz,   Sure, of course there were a lot of Black musicians who were influential in the formative years of Jazz and up until the present day. I say Black because most of them were Creoles of Color aka mulattoes and quadroons, like Jelly Roll Moron and Kid Creole.     But then again don't forget about Papa Jack Laine, the RAZZY DAZZY SPASM BAND and Tom Brown. All of these (White) guys were playing proto-Jazz as early as the 1890s, Papa Jack Laine even earlier than that. Most of the famous Black/Mulatto Creole of Color Ragtime and proto-Jazz musicians of N.O. at the time came up playing in Papa Jack Laine's marching bands, or were greatly influenced by fellow musicians and bandmates who had themselves came up playing in Jack Papa Jack Laine's racially diverse(oh how I hate that word) Marching Bands which were very popular in N.O. Papa Jack Laine was White of course. As for the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band, they were a very popular act in 1890s New Orleans, bonafide superstars in the city at the time. Herbert Asbury(author of Gangs of New York) claimed they invented Jazz in the 1890s:D The RDSB's leader, Emile Stalebread Lacoume claimed the same thing and when he died on his tombstone they even put that he was the leader of the first Jazz band...    The RDSB was a group of teenage street kids, at first they started out with home made instruments because they couldn't afford real ones. Here is the only known surviving photo of them from when they first started out as street kids with homemade instruments.    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2379/...33a99b93ee.jpg  Now it is said...(by real, unbiased historians not the anti-White/Communist PC crowd) that people like Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, the ODJB, etc...etc...were originally inspired by these creative little, street urchins. They have become very obscure figures in American history now but in their heyday(1890s New Orleans) they were big celebrities in N.O. and people came from all around to hear them play down in Storyville and in the French Quarter. Some of the guys from the ODJB were known to be regulars at the places they played at...Now the RDSB, they of course were not trained musicians and at first didn't even use real instruments, just homemade ones. It is said by some historians(who are not whipped by PC, anti-White Commie types) that the guys from the ODJB were inspired by the Razzy Dazzy boy's unique and energetic style and being trained musicians with real instruments they just took the RDSB's unrefined style and made it more sophisticated and complex and gave birth to Dixieland...aka New Orleans Jazz as we know it.    Now the RDSB was so popular in 1890s Nawleans that they spawned numerous imitators and were extremely influential and important in the development and history of Jazz, although certain people(the usual suspects) like to pretend like they didn't exist now or to downplay their importance and originality..... One of these imitators were a group (also all White) who stole their name and actually pretended to be them to make money by cashing in on the real RDSB's popularity. They would set up on street corners and in front of dancehalls and bill themselves as the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band and play all of their songs and a lot of people wouldn't realize they were fakes. So the real RDSB found out and went down there and got into a confrontation and were throwing rocks at them (so the story goes) and finally they came to an agreement. That the fakes could be a RDSB cover group, but had to stop using their name. So they started billing themselves from then on as the Razzy Dazzy JAZZY Band...now this was in late 1890s New Orleans.... This is...to my knowledge, the first time the word JAZZY or Jazz was used in a musical context, ever. This incident is also now very obscure in history but I have read about it and it did happen, look into that yourself if you're interested. All it would take is a google search for razzy dazzy jazzy band or razzy dazzy spasm band and you will probably find some stuff on the incident. There have been books about it all.    Tragedy struck the RDSB because their leader Emile Lacoume aka Stalebread contracted some type of disease(don't recall what exactly) and became blind and partially disabled for the rest of his life and had to stop playing music...the band split up and who knows what happened to them. But Stalebread lived the rest of his life, blind and disabled..in New Orleans and upon his death his family and friends made sure to have his tombstone mention that he was the leader of the world's first Jazz band... Whether you want to believe he was or not...I don't know. He claimed to have invented Jazz in the 1890s and Herbert Asbury made the same claim in his book entitled  The French Quarter : An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld   ;)         traveling throughout Black communities in the Deep South and, from around 1914 on, Afro-Creole and African American musicians playing in vaudeville shows took jazz to western and northern US cities.[18]   No, what they took is a New Orleans style of Ragtime. Dixieland was the first true Jazz. Nothing that came before sounded the same.        Morton published Jelly Roll Blues in 1915, the first jazz work in print.   Says who exactly? I'd like to know.... Who says it was Jazz? I bet it was a Ragtime composition and now they're trying to pass it off as being Jazz. Anyways....the ODJB didn't record before 1917, but they were originally formed under the name the Old Dixieland Jass Band in 1909 according to Louis Armstrong;) 6 years before this song you're talking about was released... Louis Armstrong claimed the ODJB, then known as Old DJB instead of Original DJB(they added the Original later on because everyone by that point had copied their style, Dixieland) was formed in 1909 but Nick LaRocca himself claimed it was 1908. Either way, at least 6 years before this song you mentioned was released;)    Afro-Creole pianist Jelly Roll Morton began his career in Storyville.    He was a mulatto, a Creole of Color, not really the Blackest guy... Just look at how light he was..... I think Obama is Blacker than Jelly Roll Moron and he's half White.    http://inlinethumb05.webshots.com/26...425x425Q85.jpg   http://www.swing-time.fr/Img_Artiste...oll_Morton.jpg   http://www.starrgennett.org/images/s...oll-morton.jpg   http://www.rounderstore.com/images/c...66110922_0.JPG     and his Society Orchestra which in 1913 became the first black group to make Jazz recordings.[20][21]    Okay, the first Jazz recordings were in 1917 by the ODJB and even the most anti-White, Jewish Communist wouldn't even lie about that. To claim that anybody recorded Jazz before the ODJB in 1917 is ludicrous. Where are you getting this from?? You're absolutely out of your damn mind, boy. This is absurd. Maybe they recorded something but it sure as hell wasn't Jazz, that's for sure:rolleyes:      The Original Dixieland Jass Band's Livery Stable Blues released early in 1917 is one of the early jazz records.[23]   THE earliest.    In September 1917 W.C. Handy's Orchestra of Memphis recorded a cover version of Livery Stable Blues.[24]   You see, even WC Handy was copying ODJB's songs:D Just like he copied Hart Wand, the White man who composed the first piano blues and first known song with Blues in the title, Dallas Blues in 1912. Then WC Handy released a piano blues(St. Louis Blues) a full two years later in 1914 and had the nerve to call himself the Father of the Blues.