Editing Original Dixieland Jass Band (section)

==Original New Orleans Jazz Band==
When the New Orleans Jazz style swept New York by storm in 1917 with the arrival of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, [[Jimmy Durante]] was part of the audience at [[Reisenweber's Cafe]] on [[Columbus Circle]] when ODJB played that venue. Durante was very impressed with the band and invited them to play at a club called the Alamo in [[Harlem]] where Jimmy played piano.

Durante had his friend, Johnny Stein (the previous drummer and leader of the group), assemble a group of like-minded New Orleans musicians to accompany his act at the Alamo. Stein did so, with a band consisting of fellow veterans of the Laine bands in New Orleans, other than pianist Durante. In late 1918 they recorded two sides for [[Okeh Records|Okeh]] under the name of the New Orleans Jazz Band. They recorded the same two numbers a couple of months later for [[Gennett Records|Gennett]] under the name of [[Original New Orleans Jazz Band]], and in 1920 the same group recorded again for Gennett as Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band. They later billed themselves as "Durante's Jazz and Novelty Band".{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}