Dixieland

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Robertson's rollicking guitar struggles for sonic space over the Dixieland jazz of "Ophelia," The Band's broadcast of nostalgia for a home that is lost.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

The performances led to a record deal, and the Dixieland band had soon recorded the world’s first commercially distributed jazz sides, for the Victor label.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

“I might play three or four gigs a day. Dixieland, R&B, jazz, I’ll play country and western.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

The term Dixie, or Dixieland, which was also sung about in Elvis's epic American Trilogy, derives from the states around the Mason-Dixon line.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2020

Despite jazz’s African-American origins in the Blues and in New Orleans’s funeral procession bands, the members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band itself were the children of white European immigrants.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall