Dan Levinson's Roof Garden Jass Band Salutes the ODJB and the Beginning of Recorded Jazz

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1.	Livery Stable Blues 03:00	info	buy track
2.	Dixie Jass Band One-Step - introducing "That Teasin' Rag" 02:32	info	buy track
3.	I Lost My Heart in Dixieland 03:49	info	buy track
4.	Palesteena 02:53	info	buy track
5.	Hawaiian Butterfly - introducing "Rose Room" 02:57	info	buy track
6.	At the Jazz Band Ball 02:36	info	buy track
7.	Alice Blue Gown 03:52	info	buy track
8.	Swanee 02:39	info	buy track
9.	Sweet Mamma (Papa's Getting Mad) - introducing "Strut Miss Lizzie" 03:17	info	buy track
10.	Ostrich Walk 03:16	info	buy track
11.	Home Again Blues - introducing "Lindy" 02:57	info	buy track
12.	Tell Me 03:50	info	buy track
13.	Oh By Jingo! - introducing "Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia" 02:44	info	buy track
14.	Jazz Me Blues 02:59	info	buy track
15.	Clarinet Marmalade 02:44	info	buy track
16.	Satanic Blues 03:53	info	buy track
17.	The Sheik of Araby - introducing "Hindustan" 02:31	info	buy track
18.	Skeleton Jangle 02:48	info	buy track
19.	Rambling Blues 02:13	info	buy track
20.	Margie - introducing "Singin' the Blues" 03:14	info	buy track
21.	Tiger Rag 02:57	info	buy track

about

In 1987, Dan Levinson, then a senior at New York University, organized a five-piece band for a concert celebrating the 70th anniversary of recorded jazz. The phenomenal success of that event inspired a repeat performance across the continent in the Roof Garden of Los Angeles' famous Variety Arts Center, from which the band took its name. Since then, the Roof Garden Jass Band has performed for jazz societies throughout the Northeast, as well as at the Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke Festival in Wisconsin, the Orange County Classic Jazz Festival in California, the Hot Steamed Jazz Festival in Connecticut, and Dick Hyman's Jazz in July Festival at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

The Roof Garden Jass Band is the only band in existence devoted exclusively to this neglected era in jazz history, a time of transition when jazz - or "jass," as it was originally known - still retained many elements of ragtime. In those evolutionary days, jazz bands played for dancers, and the music was almost entirely ensemble rather than a succession of instrumental solos.

"Dan Levinson's Roof Garden Jass Band Salutes the ODJB and the Beginning of Recorded Jazz" is the band's debut album, released in 1998. It contains 16 authentic re-creations of recordings made between 1917 and 1921 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first band to record jazz. In addition, Dan Levinson's group has included five "hypothetical" interpretations of numbers known to have been played by the ODJB but never recorded by them.

credits

released May 1, 1998

Jon-Erik Kellso, cornet
David Sager, trombone
Dan Levinson, clarinet/alto saxophone
Tom Roberts, piano
Kevin Dorn, drums

1. Livery Stable Blues (Lopez, Nunez, Lee)
2. Dixie Jass Band One-Step (introducing "That Teasin' Rag) (LaRocca, Jordan)
3. I Lost My Heart in Dixieland (Berlin)
4. Palesteena (Conrad, Robinson)
5. Hawaiian Butterfly (introducing "Rose Room") (Little, Baskette, Santly, Williams, Hickman)
6. At the Jass Band Ball (LaRocca, Shields)
7. Alice Blue Gown (Tierney, McCarthy)
8. Swanee (Caesar, Gershwin)
9. Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad) (introducing "Strut Miss Lizzie") (Rose, Little, Frost, Creamer, Layton)
10. Ostrich Walk (LaRocca, Shields)
11. Home Again Blues (introducing "Lindy") (Berlin, Akst)
12. Tell Me (Kortlander, Callahan)
13. Oh By Jingo (intro. "Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia") (Brown, Von Tilzer, Clarke, Ager, Meyer)
14. Jazz Me Blues (Delaney)
15. Clarinet Marmalade (Shields, Ragas)
16. Satanic Blues (Shields, Christian)
17. The Sheik of Araby (introducing "Hindustan") (Smith, Wheeler, Snyder, Wallace, Weeks)
18. Skeleton Jangle (LaRocca)
19. Rambling Blues (LaRocca, Shields, Bernard)
20. Margie (introducing "Singin' the Blues") (Davis, Conrad, Robinson, Young, Lewis)
21. Tiger Rag (LaRocca)

All selections transcribed from the original recordings or arranged by Dan Levinson except track 10, transcribed by Rosy McHargue. Tracks 5, 8, 13, 17 & 19 contain selections played by but never recorded by the ODJB, and are performed here in such a manner as to demonstrate the way they might have sounded.

Cover Artwork: Arthur Ackermann
Recording Engineer: Peter Karl
Layout: Joseph Gatchalian, Jody Krieger, Terry Sangalang
RGJB Photo: Frank Driggs

Acknowledgements: H.O. Brunn, Rosy McHargue, Alison Fazio, Joe H. Klee, Virginia Mallon, Joan Levinson. Very special thanks to Jody Krieger and Art Levinson, without whose assistance this project could not have been completed.