Original Dixieland Jass Band itself as the Creators of Jazz. It was the first band to record jazz commercially and to have hit recordings in the genre. Band leader and cornetist Nick LaRocca argued that ODJB deserved recognition as the first band to record jazz commercially and the first band to establish jazz as a musical idiom or genre. In early 1916 a promoter from Chicago approached clarinetist Alcide Nunez and drummer Johnny Stein about bringing a New Orleans-style band to Chicago, where the similar Brown's Band From Dixieland, led by trombonist Tom Brown, was enjoying success. They then assembled trombonist Eddie Edwards, pianist
George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation The George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation was created by George Buck in 1986 to maintain the catalog of his jazz record labels. The catalog features Dixieland jazz, Big Band, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, and cabaret music. Buck started his first label, Jazzology Records, in 1949 when he recorded a band in New York City that consisted of three of his favorite musicians: Wild Bill Davison, Tony Parenti, and Art Hodes. He became part of the first wave of small independent record companies. This label is now the oldest independent record label worldwide,