Dixieland

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He was not a musician himself but he loved jazz — straight-ahead and Dixieland — and swing most of all.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2025

Robertson's rollicking guitar struggles for sonic space over the Dixieland jazz of "Ophelia," The Band's broadcast of nostalgia for a home that is lost.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

The performances led to a record deal, and the Dixieland band had soon recorded the world’s first commercially distributed jazz sides, for the Victor label.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

He was particularly drawn to the traditional jazz, or Dixieland, of trombonist Kid Ory, who had performed with Louis Armstrong in New Orleans before 1920.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022

Despite jazz’s African-American origins in the Blues and in New Orleans’s funeral procession bands, the members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band itself were the children of white European immigrants.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall