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==Music of ODJB== {{Unreferenced section|date=November 2014}} [[File:Tiger Rag V disc214 ODJB.png|thumb|"Tiger Rag" and "Sensation" released on V Disc by the ODJB, No. 214B, VP 435, Hot Jazz, June, 1944, with Eddie Edwards and Tony Sbarbaro]] ==="Tiger Rag"=== {{Main|Tiger Rag}} {{listen | filename=Tiger Rag ODJB.ogg| title=Tiger Rag (1918)|description=The Original Dixieland Jass Band's 1918 recording of "Tiger Rag".| pos=left | format=[[Ogg]]}} The band's 1917 composition "Tiger Rag" became one of the most popular and ubiquitous of jazz standards. There were 136 cover versions of ODJB's copyright jazz standard and classic "Tiger Rag" by 1942. It has been standard ever since. Their first release, "[[Livery Stable Blues]]", featured instruments doing barnyard imitations and the fully loaded [[trap set]], [[Woodblock (instrument)|wood block]]s, [[cowbell (instrument)|cowbell]]s, [[gong]]s, and Chinese [[gourd]]s. This musical innovation represented one of the first experimental exercises in jazz. At the time, their music was liberating; the barnyard sounds were experiments in altering the tonal qualities of the instruments, and clattering wood blocks broke up the rhythm. The music was very lively when compared to the pop music of the time. Many of the tunes first composed and recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, such as "Tiger Rag" and "Margie", were recorded by many of the major jazz bands and orchestras of the twentieth century, black and white. "Tiger Rag" was recorded by many artists, from Louis Armstrong to Duke Ellington to Glenn Miller to Benny Goodman. "Tiger Rag", in particular, became popular with many colleges and universities having a tiger as a mascot. In the biography ''John Coltrane: His Life and Music'', published in 1999, [[Lewis Porter]] noted that ODJB's classic, "Margie", was a "specialty" of [[John Coltrane]], a song he performed regularly in his early career. "Tiger Rag", "Margie", "Clarinet Marmalade", "At The Jazz Band Ball", "Sensation Rag", and "Fidgety Feet" remain much played classics in the repertory of contemporary Dixieland and traditional jazz bands. Their tunes were published as collaborations by some or all of the entire ensemble, including band leader Nick La Rocca. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recording of "Tiger Rag" was no. 1 for two weeks on the U.S. Hit Parade charts beginning on December 11, 1918. The Mills Brothers recorded "Tiger Rag" in 1931 with lyrics and spent four weeks at no. 1 on the charts in 1931β1932 with their version of the ODJB song. The Eddie Edwards composition "Sensation Rag" (aka "Sensation") was performed at the 1938 landmark Benny Goodman jazz concert at [[Carnegie Hall]] released on the album ''[[The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert]]''. Compared to later jazz, the ODJB recordings have only modest improvisation in mostly ensemble tunes. Clarinetist Larry Shields is perhaps the most interesting player, showing a good fluid tone, and if his melodic variations and breaks now seem overly familiar, this is because they were imitated widely by musicians who followed in the band's footsteps.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}} Their concept of arrangement was somewhat limited, and their recordings can seem rather repetitive. The lack of a bass player is scarcely compensated for by the piano on their earlier, acoustically recorded sessions. Nonetheless, ODJB arrangements were wild, impolite, and definitely had a jazz feel, and that style still is referred to as the style of music known as Dixieland. ===Covers=== ODJB's songs were recorded by other musicians, such as Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, one of the most popular and influential jazz bands of the 1920s. * "Beale Street Mama" β by J. Russel Robinson, recorded by Henderson in 1923 as an instrumental on Paramount. * "Clarinet Marmalade" β recorded in 1926, released on Vocalion and Brunswick. In 1931, Henderson recorded a new version for Columbia. * "Livery Stable Blues" β recorded in 1927, released on Columbia * "Fidgety Feet" β by Nick LaRocca, recorded in 1927, released on Vocalion * "Sensation" β recorded in 1927, released on Vocalion * "Tiger Rag" β recorded in 1931, released on Crown * "Aggravatin' Papa" β collaboration with Robinson, recorded in 1923 with Alberta Hunter on vocals * "Singin' the Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home)" β recorded in 1931 with Rex Stewart on cornet Bix Beiderbecke recorded nine compositions associated with the ODJB from 1924 to 1930: "Fidgety Feet", his first recording in 1924, "Tiger Rag", "Sensation", "Lazy Daddy", "Ostrich Walk", "Clarinet Marmalade", "Singin' the Blues" with Frankie Trumbauer and Eddie Lang, "Margie", and "At the Jazz Band Ball". ===Recordings=== The band's seminal 78-rpm recordings include the following (on Victor, Columbia, and Aeolian Vocalion): ====1917β1920==== {{Listen | filename = OriginalDixielandJassBand DixieJassBandOneStep1917.ogg | title = Dixieland Jass Band One-Step (1917) | description = The Original Dixieland Jass Band's 1921 recording of "[[Dixieland Jass Band One-Step|Dixie Jass Band One-Step]]". | format = [[Ogg]] | pos = right | type = music}} # "[[Dixieland Jass Band One-Step|Dixie Jass Band One-Step]]"/"Introducing That Teasin' Rag"/"[[Livery Stable Blues]]", 1917, Victor 18255. This was the second pressing. The original title of the A side was "Dixieland Jass Band One-Step". # "[[At the Jazz Band Ball]]"/"Barnyard Blues", 1917, Aeolian Vocalion A1205 # "[[Ostrich Walk]]"/"[[Tiger Rag]]", 1917, Aeolian Vocalion A1206 # "[[Reisenweber's Cafe|Reisenweber]] Rag/Look at 'Em Doing It Now", 1917, Aeolian Vocalion 1242 # "[[Darktown Strutters' Ball]]"/"[[(Back Home Again in) Indiana]]", 1917, Columbia A2297; the ODJB recording of "Darktown Strutters' Ball" was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] on February 8, 2006 # "At the Jazz Band Ball" (1918 version)/"Ostrich Walk" (1918 version), 1918, Victor 18457 # "Skeleton Jangle"/"Tiger Rag" (1918 version), 1918, Victor 18472 # "Bluin' the Blues"/"[[Sensation Rag (1918 instrumental)|Sensation Rag]]", 1918, Victor 18483 # "Mournin' Blues"/"[[Clarinet Marmalade]]", 1918, Victor 18513, "Mournin' Blues" also appeared as "Mornin' Blues" on some releases. The full B side title was "Clarinet Marmalade Blues". # "Fidgety Feet (War Cloud)"/"Lazy Daddy", 1918, Victor 18564 # "Lasses Candy"/"Satanic Blues", 1919, Columbia 759 # "Oriental Jazz" (or "Jass"), 1919, recorded November 24, 1917 and issued as Aeolian Vocalion 12097 in April 1919 with "Indigo Blues" by [[Ford Dabney]]'s Band # "At the Jazz Band Ball" (1919 version)/"Barnyard Blues" (1919 version), 1919, recorded in London, England, April 16, 1919, English Columbia 735 # "Soudan" (also known as "Oriental Jass" and "Oriental Jazz"), 1920, recorded in London, England, in May 1920 and released as English Columbia 829; was composed by Czech composer Gabriel Sebek in 1906 as "In the Soudan: A Dervish Chorus" or "Oriental Scene for Piano, Op. 45". The B side was "Me-Ow" by the London Dance Orchestra # "[[Margie (song)|Margie]]"/"[[Singin' the Blues (1920 song)|Singin' the Blues]]"/"[[Palesteena]]", 1920, Victor 18717 # "Broadway Rose"/"Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad)"/"Strut, Miss Lizzie", 1920, Victor 18722 {{Listen | filename = OriginalDixielandJazzBandwithAlBernard StLouisBlues.ogg | title = Saint Louis Blues (1921) | description = The Original Dixieland Jass Band's 1921 recording of "[[Saint Louis Blues (song)|Saint Louis Blues]]". | format = [[Ogg]] | filename2 = OriginalDixielandJassBand-JazzMeBlues.ogg | title2 = Jazz Me Blues (1921) | description2 = The Original Dixieland Jass Band's 1921 recording of "Jazz Me Blues". | format2 = [[Ogg]] | pos = right | type = music}} ====1921β1923==== # "Home Again Blues"/"Crazy Blues"/"It's Right Here For You (If You Don't Get It, Tain't No Fault O' Mine)", 1921, Victor 18729 # "Tell Me/Mammy o' Mine", 1921, recorded in the UK and released as Columbia 804 # "[[I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles]]"/"My Baby's Arms", 1921, Columbia 805 # "I've Lost My Heart in Dixieland"/"[[I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now]]", 1921, Columbia 815 # "Sphinx/[[Alice Blue Gown]]", 1921, Columbia 824 # "Jazz Me Blues/[[Saint Louis Blues (song)|St. Louis Blues]]", 1921, Victor 18772 # "[[Royal Garden Blues]]"/"Dangerous Blues", 1921, Victor 18798 # "Bow Wow Blues (My Mama Treats Me Like a Dog)", 1922, Victor 18850. The B side was "Railroad Blues" by the Benson Orchestra of Chicago under pianist and composer Roy Bargy # "Toddlin' Blues"/"Some of These Days", 1923, Okeh 4738 ====1935β1938==== ====Original Dixieland Jazz Band (led by Tony Sbarbaro)==== # "I'm Sittin' High on a Hilltop" (vocal by Terry Shand)/"I Live for Love" (vocal by Russ Morgan) 1935, Vocalion 3084 # "You Stayed Away Too Long/Slipping Through My Fingers", 1935, Vocalion 3099 ====Nick LaRocca and the Original Dixieland Band==== (LaRocca, Shields, Robinson, and Sbarbaro with orchestra) # "Tiger Rag"/"Bluin' the Blues", 1936, Victor 25403 # "Clarinet Marmalade", 1936, Victor 25411-B, issued as a B-side opposite Benny Goodman's record "St. Louis Blues" # "Who Loves You?"/"Did You Mean It?", 1936, Victor 25420, vocals by Chris Fletcher # "Ostrich Walk"/"Toddlin' Blues", 1936, Victor 25460 # "Fidgety Feet", 1936, Victor 25668-B. Unreleased until 1937, when it was issued as a B-side opposite [[Ray Noble]]'s record "Vieni, Vieni" # "Old Joe Blade", 1936, Victor 26039-B, vocal by J. Russel Robinson. Unreleased until 1938, when it was issued as a B-side opposite [[Lionel Hampton]]'s record "Any Time at All". ====The Original Dixieland Five==== (reunion of the 1919 quintet: LaRocca, Shields, Edwards, Robinson, and Sbarbaro) # "Original Dixieland One-Step/Barnyard Blues" (new version of "Livery Stable Blues"), 1936, Victor 25502 # "Tiger Rag"/"Skeleton Jangle", 1936, Victor 25524 # "Clarinet Marmalade"/"Bluin' the Blues", 1936, Victor 25525 ====Original Dixieland Jazz Band with Shields, Edwards, and Sbarbaro; vocals by Lola Bard==== # "oooOO-Oh! Boom!"/"Please Be Kind", 1938, Bluebird B-7442 # "Good-Night, Sweet Dreams, Good-Night"/"In My Little Red Book", 1938, Bluebird B-7444 # "Drop a Nickel in the Slot"/"Jezebel", 1938, Bluebird B-7454 ====Later recordings==== # "Tiger Rag" (1943 version), 1944, [[V-Disc]] 214B1, issued June, 1944, with Eddie Edwards and Tony Sbarbaro # "Sensation" (1943 version), 1944, V-Disc 214B2, with Eddie Edwards and Tony Sbarbaro # "Shake It and Break It"/"When You and I Were Young, Maggie", 1946, Commodore C-613 ===Soundtracks=== The soundtrack album to the 2011 ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' series on HBO includes performances of three songs recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band: "Livery Stable Blues", "Mournin' Blues", and "Margie", performed by [[Vince Giordano]] and the Nighthawks Orchestra.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://ew.com/article/2011/08/10/boardwalk-empire-soundtrack-regina-spektor/|title='Boardwalk Empire' soundtrack full listing, including Regina Spektor's take on 'My Man': Hear it here -- EXCLUSIVE|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=10 August 2011}}</ref> The soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 54th Grammy Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/article/20120213/BLOGS/302139834|title=Bucks County Courier Times|first=Eddie|last=Gribbin|website=Buckscountycouriertimes.com|access-date=July 31, 2021}}</ref>
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