Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band (1920)
This band was organized by drummer Johnny
Stein after Stein's Dixie Jass Band broke up
and became the Original Dixieland Jass
Band. It is interesting to note that Achille
Baquet was an African American, but passed
for White and played for mainly White bands
in New Orleans, including, Papa Jack Laine's
Relaince Orchestra. His brother George
Baquet was a member of the Original Creole
Orchestra and Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot
Peppers. The band also recorded under the
names of the Original New Orleans Jazz
Band and New Orleans Jazz Band.
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