Original New Orleans Jazz Band (1918 - 1919)
This band was organized by drummer Johnny Stein after Stein's Dixie Jazz Band broke up and became the
Original Dixieland Jazz 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 New Orleans Jazz Band and Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.
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