Doreen's Jazz New Orleans sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center and The US Department of State. Doreen's Jazz New Orleans has more than 25 albums and five CDs that they record and sell through the private DJNO Records label. Doreen's Jazz New Orleans Doreen's Jazz New Orleans is a Dixieland and Traditional Jazz band run by one of the few female band leaders in New Orleans, clarinetist Doreen Ketchens. The group has toured the world, and performs in the Royal Street Performing Arts zone in the French Quarter of New Orleans, at jazz festivals, fairs, showcases, and concert halls. Videos of the group by
Jazz recordings featuring "jazz" in the title or band name, but most were ragtime or novelty records rather than jazz. In February 1918 during World War I, James Reese Europe's "Hellfighters" infantry band took ragtime to Europe, then on their return recorded Dixieland standards including "Darktown Strutters' Ball". In the northeastern United States, a "hot" style of playing ragtime had developed, notably James Reese Europe's symphonic Clef Club orchestra in New York City, which played a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall in 1912. The Baltimore rag style of Eubie Blake influenced James P. Johnson's development of stride piano playing, in which