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The most consistently popular jazz in the U.S. is played neither by the young men with beards nor by the aging heroes of early jazz mythology. Instead, it is pumped and pounded out by Dixieland ...

Jazz; performed by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Production notes: Originally recorded Feb. 26, 1917-July 17, 1918, in New York. Dixie Jass Band one-step --Livery stable blues --Skeleton jangle ...

The sound that would come to be called “Dixieland” developed from the jazz music of early 20th-century New Orleans, epitomized by figures like Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. But it didn’t get ...