The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

This year is the 100th anniversary of the first jazz recording — the 1917 Original Dixieland "Jass" Band's "Livery Stable Blues." The five white musicians from New Orleans soon changed their band name ...

One hundred years ago this week, five New Orleans musicians made the first recording of a new genre of music unknown to most of the nation. “Livery Stable Blues,” the first studio number scratched ...

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band was not the First Group to play jazz, but historians agree its members were the first to record it commercially, with their landmark recording session 100 years ago ...

ODJB probably late 1936 - Livery Stable Blues Rare production footage discovered by film archivists Mark Cantor and Bob DeFlores shows the entire performance of Livery Stable Blues, with breaks for ...