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The first jazz record is made

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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Recorded on Jazz

  1. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
  2. Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound
  3. Berliner patents the gramophone
  4. The first jazz record is made
  5. Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues"
  6. KDKA broadcasts
  7. Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording
  8. The Kumasi Trio record in London
  9. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
  10. The first New York City Marathon, in Central Park
  11. New York goes to five boroughs

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