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The Original Dixieland Jass Band — five white musicians from New Orleans — record "Livery Stable Blues" and "Dixieland Jass Band One-Step" for the Victor Talking Machine Company at its studio on West 38th Street in New York. Issued as Victor 18255, it is generally counted the first jazz record commercially released, and it made the music an international commodity within months. Black New Orleans musicians, who had been playing the idiom for a decade and more, were not recorded in it until several years later; the ordering is a fact about who owned the studios, not about who made the music.

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  2. The Original Dixieland Jass Band — five white musicians from New Orleans — record "Livery Stable Blues" and "Dixieland Jass Band One-Step" for the Victor Talking Machine Company at its studio on West 38th Street in New York. Issued as Victor 18255, it is generally counted the first jazz record commercially released, and it made the music an international commodity within months. Black New Orleans musicians, who had been playing the idiom for a decade and more, were not recorded in it until several years later; the ordering is a fact about who owned the studios, not about who made the music.
  3. Knowledge
  4. New York City
  5. New Orleans
  6. Jazz
  7. Sound recording
  8. The first jazz record is made
  9. Connections
  10. Jazz
  11. New Orleans
  12. Sound recording
  13. New York City
  14. Blues
  15. New Orleans
  16. Son cubano
  17. The first jazz record is made
  18. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
  19. The Middle Passage
  20. Congo Square, New Orleans
  21. Jazz
  22. Havana
  23. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
  24. The first jazz record is made
  25. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
  26. Electrical recording
  27. Race records
  28. Radio diffusion
  29. Field recording
  30. Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound
  31. Berliner patents the gramophone
  32. The first jazz record is made
  33. KDKA broadcasts
  34. Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording
  35. The Kumasi Trio record in London
  36. New York City Marathon
  37. London
  38. New York Road Runners
  39. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
  40. New York goes to five boroughs
  41. The first jazz record is made
  42. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
  43. Evidence
  44. The Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded "Livery Stable Blues" and "Dixieland Jass Band One-Step" for Victor in New York on 26 February 1917, issued as Victor 18255 and generally counted the first commercially released jazz record. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to the Library of Congress article and corroborating discographic entries; the article was not opened, and retrieved sources give the release date variously as 7 March and May 1917, which this pack does not resolve.
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