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(2-CD set) Avid Entertainment's new West End series presents this CD of classic jazz from the legendary (and controversial) "Creators of Jazz," The Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Led by cornetist Nick La Rocca, the ODJB released what is acknowledged as the very first jazz record in 1917, both sides of which open this double CD with 49 tracks. The band caused a sensation and went on to define the Roaring '20s and set in motion the beginning of the Jazz Age. Features: Livery Stable Blues - Dixie Jazz Band One Step - Darktown Strutters' Ball - Indiana - Ostrich Walk - At The Jazz Band Ball - At The Jazz Band Ball - Ostrich Walk - Skeleton Jangle - Bluin' The Blues - Fidgety Feet - Lazy Diddy - Satanic Blues - 'Lasses Candy and others.

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