Jazz leader of New Orleans' Camelia Brass Band, D'Jalma Ganier, taught Louis Armstrong to play trumpet; Armstrong would then popularize the New Orleans style of trumpet playing, and then expand it. Like Jelly Roll Morton, Armstrong is also credited with the abandonment of ragtime's stiffness in favor of swung notes. Armstrong, perhaps more than any other musician, codified the rhythmic technique of swing in jazz and broadened the jazz solo vocabulary. The Original Dixieland Jass Band made the music's first recordings early in 1917, and their "Livery Stable Blues" became the earliest released jazz record. That year, numerous other bands made
Oregon Jazz Band Oregon Jazz Band The Oregon Jazz Band is a dixieland jazz band based in Coos Bay, Oregon. They are America's longest established dixieland jazz band, founded by Dr. Bill Borcher in Coos Bay in 1947. Borcher went on to become the men's basketball coach at the University of Oregon(1951–56) and founded the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the world's largest dixieland jazz festival. Internationally, several other bands equal or predate the Oregon Jazz Band. They are Graeme Bell, Australia, 1940; Roger Bell, Australia, 1943; Humphrey Lyttelton, England and Dutch Swing College, the Netherlands, 1945; Dave Dallwitz, Australia and Claude Luter, France, 1946;