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The very first jazz group to ever record, Original Dixieland Jazz Music group made history in 1917. These were not the very first group to ever play jazz (Friend Bolden experienced preceded them by 22 years!), nor was this White colored quintet necessarily the very best band of that time …

The founder and leader of the initial Dixieland Jazz Music group, Nick LaRocca did very much to greatly help popularize jazz through the band’s existence, although he harm his own cause years afterwards by claiming to have already been among jazz’s primary originators. LaRocca, who acquired a good build but …