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The iconic band Little Feat is coming to Eugene Wednesday night for a concert at the McDonald Theatre. The band has a nearly ...
The Cavalcade of Jazz is back. For the second consecutive summer, Luzerne County's premier, multi-day jazz event is taking over Wilkes-Barre's stages. It began on Friday evening with a performance by ...
In addition to writing “Dixieland Delight,” Rogers also wrote Alabama’s No. 1 hit “Jukebox In My Mind.” Though, “Dixieland Delight” has always remained his most notable work and he ...
The trumpeter was Nick La Rocca. The clarinetist was Larry Shields. As members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, it is generally agreed that 20 years ago they originated the syncopated style of ...
People outside of Indiana still know it today as a jazz standard thanks to celebrated performances by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Red Nichols, Louis Armstrong, Bud Powell and more.
The record industry, with a gleaming eye on a trend, was climbing back aboard the Dixieland bandwagon ... an easygoing eight-piece group called the Original “Dorseyland” Jazz Band.
Achille Baquet, the notable jazz clarinetist and saxophone player, stands on a chair as he plays with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Credit: Courtesy Wayne Baquet Sign up for Verite's free, ...
With the modified version outlawed, at least in spirit, the original eventually made its return to Crimson Tide gameday in 2018. "Dixieland Delight" is not specifically about Tennessee ...
New Orleans trumpet player and composer Jimmy LaRocca died over the weekend. Jimmy‘s father, also a trumpet player, Nick LaRocca, was the leader of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first ...
But no conversation about this song and its place in rivalries can exist without the lyrics added after Rogers penned the original. Released 40 years ago, Dixieland Delight’s timeline ...
When the Original Dixieland Jazz Band released the first jazz recordings in 1917, they’d been marketed as novelties, but the New Orleans Rhythm Kings made it clear that they considered their ...