<P> The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917 . Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz record ever issued . The group composed and made the first recordings of many jazz standards, the most famous being "Tiger Rag". In late 1917 the spelling of the band's name was changed to Original Dixieland Jazz Band . </P> <P> The band consisted of five musicians who had played in the Papa Jack Laine bands, a racially integrated group of musicians who played for parades, dances, and advertising in New Orleans . </P> <P> ODJB billed itself as the "Creators of Jazz". It was the first band to record jazz commercially and to have hit recordings in the new genre . Band leader and cornetist Nick LaRocca argued that ODJB deserved recognition as the first band to record jazz commercially and the first band to establish jazz as a musical idiom or genre . </P> <P> In early 1916 a promoter from Chicago approached clarinetist Alcide Nunez and drummer Johnny Stein about bringing a New Orleans - style band to Chicago, where the similar Brown's Band From Dixieland, led by trombonist Tom Brown, was enjoying success . They then assembled trombonist Eddie Edwards, pianist Henry Ragas, and cornetist Frank Christian . Shortly before they were to leave, Christian backed out, and Nick LaRocca was hired as a last - minute replacement . </P>

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