Original Dixieland Jass Band was a tribute to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, who were featured on the cover. When the New Orleans Jazz style swept New York by storm in 1917 with the arrival of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Jimmy Durante was part of the audience at Reisenweber's Cafe on Columbus Circle when ODJB played that venue. Durante was very impressed with the band and invited them to play at a club called the Alamo in Harlem where Jimmy played piano. Durante had his friend, Johnny Stein (the previous drummer and leader of the group), assemble a group of like-minded New Orleans
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,