Editing Original Dixieland Jass Band (section)

==First recordings==
[[File:Livery-stable.jpg|thumb|left| The world's first jazz record: ODJB 1917 Victor release of "Livery Stable Blues", 18255-B]]
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While a couple of other New Orleans bands had passed through New York City slightly earlier, they were part of [[vaudeville]] acts. ODJB, on the other hand, played for dancing and hence, were the first "jass" band to get a following of fans in New York and then record at a time when the American recording industry was essentially centered in the northeastern United States, primarily in [[New York City]] and [[Camden, New Jersey]].

Shortly after arriving in New York, a letter dated January 29, 1917, offered the band an audition for the [[Columbia Records|Columbia Graphophone Company]]. The session took place on Wednesday, January 31, [[1917 in music|1917]]. Nothing from this test session was issued.<ref>Charters, Samuel. 2008. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ACpt6t_1WjkC&pg=PA141&dq= A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz]''. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 141. {{ISBN|1604733187}}.</ref>

The band then recorded two sides for the [[Victor Talking Machine Company]], "Livery Stable Blues" and "[[Dixieland Jass Band One-Step]]", on February 26, 1917 at Victor's New York studios.<ref>John Robert Brown, ''A Concise History of Jazz''. Mel Bay Publications, 2004, p. 25. {{ISBN|0-7866-4983-6}}</ref> These titles were released as Victor 18255 in May 1917, the first issued jazz record.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redhotjazz.com/jazz1917.html|title=The First Jazz Records|website=Redhotjazz.com|access-date=2008-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228133351/http://www.redhotjazz.com/jazz1917.html|archive-date=2008-12-28|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/objects/detail/13106/Victor_18255|title=Victor 18255 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings|website=Adp.library.ucsb.edu}}</ref> The band's recordings, first marketed as a novelty, were a surprise hit, and gave many Americans their first taste of jazz. Musician [[Joe Jordan (musician)|Joe Jordan]] sued, since the "One Step" incorporated portions of his 1909 [[ragtime]] composition "That Teasin' Rag". The record labels subsequently were changed to "Introducing 'That Teasin' Rag' by Joe Jordan". A court case dispute over the authorship of "Livery Stable Blues" resulted in the judge declaring the tune in the "public domain".

In the wake of the group's success of the Victor record, the ODJB returned to Columbia in May, recording two selections of popular tunes of the day chosen for them by the label  (possibly hoping to avoid the copyright problems which arose after Victor recorded two of the band's supposedly original compositions) "[[Darktown Strutters' Ball]]" and "[[Back Home Again in Indiana|(Back Home Again in) Indiana]]" as catalogue #A-2297.

Numerous jazz bands were formed in the wake of the success of ODJB that copied and replicated its style and sound. Also bands were brought from Chicago and California (such as the Frisco Jass Band) in an attempts to join the jazz craze. Established bands of different types and bandleaders such as [[Wilbur Sweatman]] began billing their groups as "jass" or "jazz" bands. [[Earl Fuller]], bandleader at a competing New York venue, was ordered by management to form a "jass" band.

[[W. C. Handy]] recorded one of the earliest cover versions of an ODJB tune when he released a recording of "Livery Stable Blues" by Handy's Orchestra of Memphis for Columbia in 1917.

In 1918, the song "When You Hear That Dixieland Jazz Band Play" by [[Shelton Brooks]], "the King of Ragtime Writers", was published by Will Rossiter in Chicago. It was a tribute to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, who were featured on the cover.<ref>Graczyk, Tim, with Frank Hoffmann. [https://books.google.com/books?id=q4mXh7krTxkC&pg=PA257 ''Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925'']. London and New York: Routledge, 2008, p. 257.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=1038|title="When You Hear that Dixieland Jazz Band Play" - Hogan Jazz Archive|website=Specialcollections.tulane.edu}}</ref>