The funniest thing about this recording is listening to the Edison "house band" trying to play jazz (and failing...?!) However, when the record was made, VERY few white musicians had listened to jazz!

The first dixieland jazz music recordings were made in New York City on January 30, 1917. Ironically it was by white musicians who were called "The Original Dixieland Jazz Band". Their music borrowed heavily from marching band style music, but it was also based on true New Orleans jazz. Yes, jazz had it's roots in the south. But it was an evolution of African music mixed with European music. After the civil war, many of the instruments carried by the soldiers were just dropped in fields and left for anyone to take. Poor black slaves took them and started using them to polish off the true jazz sound. The birth of jazz was a process, but New Orleans was the melding pot one might say.

Great little duet happening here with these two. Not 100% sure if this is the first ever Jazz song recorded, and I'm also not too sure if Jazz takes it roots from Dixieland. Anyways, this is a cute dixieland record anyways, with some comedy thrown in too. This is also a good jazz band (from Dixieland)