Original Dixieland Jazz Band ODJB "Tiger Rag" (1917) RARE Aeolian Vocalion 1st version ever historic скачать в хорошем качестве

Original Dixieland Jazz Band ODJB "Tiger Rag" (1917) RARE Aeolian Vocalion 1st version ever historic

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band plays "Tiger Rag"--the earliest recorded version ever! This is from August 17, 1917. It is the super-rare Aeolian Vocalion version. Don't confuse this with the famous Victor version from 1918. You need to understand why the ODJB went from Victor to Aeolian Vocalion in 1917. The jazz musicians enjoyed a hit in early 1917 when Victor issued the first jazz record. But then legal problems surfaced. The band members were unable to make additional records for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1917. Copyright issues had to be sorted out. So the ensemble turned to a new company making lateral discs. The Aeolian Vocalion company entered the disc market in 1917. Distribution of the discs was very limited. Worse, nobody bought these lateral records since their phonographs at home could not play them them (one was forced to purchase an Aeolian Vocalion machine). The five ODJB records issued by Victor in 1918 and early 1919 sold well. Sales would have been greater had not wartime shortages limited the production of records at this time. All ten titles issued from the 1918 sessions were original compositions. Most became jazz standards. Whereas composer credits on the Victor disc in 1917 were given to the ensemble as a collaborative unit (though LaRocca alone was given credit for "Barnyard Blues" on Aeolian Vocalion 1205), individuals were assigned credit in 1918, LaRocca and Shields taking the lion's share. The two share credit for "At the Jazz Band Ball," "Ostrich Walk," and "Fidgety Feet." Shields and Ragas share credit for "Clarinet Marmalade." LaRocca is credited for "Skeleton Jangle" and "Tiger Rag." LaRocca, Shields, and Ragas are credited for "Lazy Daddy." Other members are credited for remaining numbers: Edwards for "Sensation," Ragas for "Bluin' the Blues," and Sbarbaro for "Mourin' Blues." Turns may have been taken when some composer credits had been assigned. In a letter dated October 11, 1952, Edwards reminded Shields, who lived at 6075 Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, of the unusual manner in which composer credit had been assigned in 1918: "If memory serves, you will recall that the names of the numbers were decided at a rehearsal in the 400 Club Room, Reisenweber's, by drawing out of a hat but neither Spargo's [Sbarbaro] nor my name had been drawn. Nick said (as he was in charge of the drawing) that my name should go on Sensation and the one other number that had been forgotten, Mournin [sic] Blues, I suggested that Spargo's name appear on it." When Edwards was drafted in late July 1918, Emile Christian was hired as a temporary replacement. After a hiatus from Reisenweber's, on September 7 the band was again featured for a couple of weeks at the 400 Club Room (9:00 PM nightly), this time with Bert Kelly's Jazz Band as a second band. The next change in personnel was a result of the influenza of late 1918: pianist Harry Ragas was a flu victim, dying on February 18, 1919. A telegram sent at 9:29 AM on February 20 from LaRocca to Edwards, who was stationed at Campupton, New York, states, "RAGAS PASSED AWAY FEB 18/19 WE ARE MAKING UP A COLLECTION FOR A FLORAL DESIGN TO BE MADE IN NEW ORLEANS AND SENT TO HIS HOME 1018 ST CLAUDE WITH OUR BAND NAME ON IT..." Composer-pianist J. Russel Robinson joined. Raised in Indianapolis, he was the first ODJB member not from New Orleans (Sidney Lancefield was the group's pianist too briefly in 1919 to count as a member). The band traveled to London in March 1919, staying for a year and a half. Brian Rust writes, "Just as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band was the first band to introduce jazz, at least under that name, to the United States, so it was also the first to bring real jazz to Europe when it arrived in Liverpool on April 1, 1919, to appear in London as an added attraction to the revue Joy Bells at the Hippodrome." Removed from Joy Bells (George Robey was jealous of applause given the ODJB's debut on April 7?), the band opened at the Palladium on April 12; weeks later opened at the Martan Club; two months later opened at Rector's; and then opened at the Palais de Danse. J. Russel Robinson said in an interview (August 1947 issue of The Record Changer), "[W]e played for contract at the Martan Club which was located at 6 and 8 Old Bond Street...but our contract wasn't renewed. The rest of the fellows decided to go and play at the Palais de Dance at Hammersmith, but I thought this was the wrong sort of move and left." Returning to the U.S., Robinson became a Palace Trio member. He rejoined the ODJB when the others returned from abroad and wrote hits for the band--"Margie" and the exotic "Palesteena"--but the band did not break new ground with such "pop" tunes. Robinson was finally replaced by Frank Signorelli in 1921. Original Dixieland Jazz Band ODJB "Tiger Rag" (1917) RARE Aeolian Vocalion 1st version ever historic