Many bands here were led by musicians whose playing careers stretched way back before the formation of the ODJB…Dixieland jazz can be said to have originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s when band members began to improvise or ‘jazz’ up a melody rather than play it ‘straight’ as in the score. 

Improvisation is by its very nature unique to each performer, but what separated the New Orleans players from others was that they improvised as an ensemble not as solo instrumentalists: as one player played the melody, others together improvised around it.

Original artists.

Contents:
1. When the Saints go Marching in (Trad.)
Teddy Buckner & All Stars, 1955            

2. South Rampart Street Parade (Bauduc/Haggart/Allen)                                             
Dutch Swing College Band, 1958

3. Lazy River (Carmichael/Ardoin)
Pete Fountain, 1959                                                

4. Basin Street Blues (Williams)
Louis Armstrong and his All Stars, 1957                  

5. Muskrat Ramble (Ory)
Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band, 1949                              

6. At the Jazz Band Ball (La Rocca/Shields)
Muggsy Spanier Ragtime Band, 1950   

7. There’ll be Some Changes Made (Overstreet/Higgins)                                             
Jimmy McPartland and his Dixielanders, 1957

8. High Society (Steele/Melrose)
Jack Teagarden & Don Goldie, 1960 
                     
9. Runnin’ Wild (Grey/Gibbs/Wood)
George Wettling’s All Stars, 1957
                   
10. Down by the Old Mill Stream (Taylor)
Sidney Bechet, 1957
                                  
11. Willie the Weeper (Melrose/Bloom/Rymal)                                                              
George Lewis and his New Orleans Music, 1950

12. Jazz Me Blues (Delaney)
Al Hirt, 1956          
                                                         
13. Milenberg Joys (Morton)
Wilbur De Paris, 1951  
                                                  
14. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Creamer/Layton)                                           
Dutch Swing College Band, 1960

15. Bye Bye Bill Bailey (Dant/Fountain)
Pete Fountain, 1961 
                                     
16. The Faithful Hussar (Frantzen)
Louis Armstrong & his All Stars, 1956
                
17. Riverboat Shuffle (Carmichael)
Jack Teagarden & Don Goldie, 1960
                   
18. Royal Garden Blues (C & S Williams)
Kid Ory Creole Jazz Band, 1954    
        
19. After You’ve Gone (Creamer/Layton)
George Wettling’s All Stars, 1957
            
20. Dippermouth Blues (Oliver)
Muggsy Spanier’s Ragtime Band, 1956   
                
21. Tin Roof Blues (Pollack/Mares/Brunies/Roppolo)                                                 
Dutch Swing College Band, 1960

22. Cotton Fields (Ledbetter)
Pete Fountain, 1957 
                                                       
23. Shreveport Stomp (Morton)
Wilbur De Paris, 1952
                                               
24. Sugar (Pinkard/Alexander/Mitchell)
Al Hirt, 1956
                                                
25. Original Dixieland One-Step (La Rocca)
Jimmy McPartland Dixielanders, 1957