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Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The 1917 recordings by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, fostered awareness of this new style of music.
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- ↑ Daniel Hardie, "Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style", ISBN 978-0-595-21876-9, 2002, [p.171] which cites a letter by New Orleans resident Harry Huguenot to the New York Dramatic Mirror in 1919
- ↑ David Gold (Gold, David L. (2009). Rodríguez González, Félix; Lillo Buades, Antonio (eds.). Studies in Etymology and Etiology: With Emphasis on Germanic, Jewish, Romance and Slavic Languages. Alicante, Spain: Universidad de Alicante. p. 155. ISBN 9788479085179.) cites Herbert Asbury, "The French Quarter", 1936, without approval of his uncited story.
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