1919 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1919.
Cover of sheet music "Dardanella", 1919
Sheet music cover for "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"
Sheet music cover for "Sipping Cider Through A Straw"
Rebecca Clarke holding her viola in 1919
Original Dixieland Jass Band
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The Original Dixieland Jass Band, later Original Dixieland Jazz Band, was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz rec
1919 in music
…January 18 – The pianist Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of Poland. April 7 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band brings Dixieland jazz to England, opening a 15-month tour at the Hippodrome, London. May 3 – The National Association of Negro Musicians is established…
1918 promotional postcard of the ODJB showing (from left), drummer Tony Sbarbaro (a.k.a. Tony Spargo), trombonist Edwin "Daddy" Edwards, cornetist Dominick James "Nick" LaRocca, clarinetist Larry Shields, and pianist Henry Ragas
The first release of "Tiger Rag" on Aeolian Vocalion, B1206, 1917
The world's first jazz record: ODJB 1917 Victor release of "Livery Stable Blues", 18255-B
Victor second pressing release of "Dixie Jass Band One-Step", 18255-A, 1917