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The Dixieland Jug Blowers were a popular American musical group of the 1920s. While being a jug band, the group is often classified as a jazz band due to its set up which, while including regular Jug band instruments such as jug, banjo, guitar, and violin, also used alto saxophone, trombone, piano, and even the famous Johnny Dodds on clarinet. This wide variety of instrumentation caused the jug band to become the most sophisticated of its time and influenced many other jug bands of the time such as the Memphis Jug Band. The Dixieland Jug Band was originally formed through...

Let There Be NO Confusion! It is a fact that Frank and Freddie Assunto created and led the #1 Jazz Band in America from the early 1950's thru early 1974 known as The Dukes of Dixieland. They played with and recorded with all the greats of their time and also appeared on numerous TV Shows from the 50's through the 1960's. Their untimely deaths, Freddie in 1966 (36) and Frank in 1974 (42) ended the reign of the Dukes of Dixieland. But instead of their legacy being left to be properly respected others stepped in to profit and mislead the...

Original Dixieland Jass Band (after mid-1917 spelling changed to Jazz) A Chicago that played the popular Dixieland Jazz style. A band which, in 1917, was the first ever to make a jazz recording. It was also the first jazz band to achieve widespread prominence. The Original Dixieland Jass Band are often known by their initials, the O.D.J.B. The band consisted of 5 white musicians who had previously been playing in the Papa Jack Laine bands, a diverse and racially integrated collection of musicians who played for parades, dances, and advertising in New Orleans. The O.D.J.B. were billed as the "Creators...

Founded in 1980, in Barcelona, La Vella Dixieland is the most well known traditional jazz band in Spain. La Vella jazz Band began as an encounter of friends that would get together to play the music they liked the most: classical jazz. Their proposal has achieved great success, playing at numerous Festivals, recording seven albums of which more than 35.000 copies have been sold, and participating in various events that have been an important part of Spanish cultural life (the '92 Olympic Games), in a task to spread their music throughout a country like Spain that has so little jazz...