Editing Original Dixieland Jass Band (section)

==Influence==
The ODJB was the first band to record jazz successfully, establishing and creating jazz as a new musical idiom and genre of music. Bix Beiderbecke was influenced by the ODJB to become a jazz musician and was heavily influenced by Nick LaRocca's cornet and trumpet style. Louis Armstrong acknowledged the importance of ODJB:

{{blockquote|Only four years before I learned to play the trumpet in the Waif's Home, or in 1909, the first great jazz orchestra was formed in New Orleans by a cornet player named Dominick James LaRocca. They called him 'Nick' LaRocca. His orchestra had only five pieces but they were the hottest five pieces that had ever been known before. LaRocca named this band 'The Old Dixieland Jass Band'. He had an instrumentation different from anything before, an instrumentation that made the old songs sound new. Besides himself at the cornet, LaRocca had Larry Shields, clarinet, Eddie Edwards, trombone, Ragas, piano, and Sbarbaro, drums. They all came to be famous players and the Dixieland Band has gone down now in musical history.
| source = Louis Armstrong, ''Swing That Music'', 1936<ref>{{cite book
| last = Armstrong
| first = Louis
| title = Swing That Music
| publisher = Da Capo Press
| year = 1993
| pages = 9–10
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Oq2yWIdKezIC&q=louis+armstrong+swing+that+music
| isbn = 0-306-80544-8
}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>}}Many years later, another Jazz Band using the ODJB theme was formed by Detroit saxophonist [[Grover Overton]], called the [[Second Dixieland Jazz Band]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Second Dixieland Jazz Band |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/15928503-Second-Dixieland-Jazz-Band |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Discogs |language=en}}</ref>