6 6 THE SUN, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1919. Jazz Has Remarkable History as a Fad Starting Twenty Years Ago in New Orleans It Has Swept From Coast to Coast and Is Invading Europe Exponents in Bitter Dispute as to Origin Broadway Historian Settles Question ' ! m LORE.TTA Mr. Kingsley is the most pro-four- .d authority on jazz, which has McDERMOTT swept over this country and is now invading Europe. Maurice is now teaching the shimmy dance in Paris F&TSCO to Jazz music to French pupils. Mr. Kingsley has interviewed every artist of the Keith circuits who might have been by way of picking players by car up any information on the subject variations than do tho and they have brought alone. Ho has developed a school back to the of Jazz and clarinetists. Palace Theatre much light on a Baquet is of his art and topic that has mystified the lighter a student Kelly and his band are now playing I Jazz "blues" a generation before player Sprlcclo, daddy of from the African Jungle via tho slave tho 'Jazz band.' The band consisted tertainment of our patrons It has been enjoys high standing among h.s musical The impor- and for John the a authorities. for Frisco and making a musical hit they reached Chicago. Bert Kelly be- - Jazz, brought the original Dixieland ships and the plantations. Old John of Tom Brown, trombono (how with necessary to ralso the prices aa fol- fellow Jazz artists. It Is interesting tance of "jazz" may be understood of their own. with four men in his Jazz band. Jazz Band to Chicago in 1917. They Sprlcclo of New Orleans knows nil Bert Kelly's Jazz Band): Raymond lows:' &c. to note how he works out the animal from the degree to which it has was Itaymond Lopez, now Igan now plays banjo played In moro or Important re- the music of the darkles, and some Lopez, cornet (now with Blossom "This was In tho 1916. and In Livery supplanted It with has five and a less fall of effect and imitations "The the earlier and simpler In- - In Chicago In 1917, appear- terprlslng writer of popular melo.ll . feeley) ; Gus Mueller, United City syncopation Blossom Secley, who first muted his Instead of a cornet, which sorts often clarinet. the land from White was tho Stoblo Blues." He explains: we knew as ragtime. cornet with a derby hat, and Tom stnimonts, in his words, "blatts too ing without coats and all shimmying. ought to visit him. He Is responsible States Army; William Lambert, drums. first band ever to be advertised as a "The band makes a sudden stop or Kelly - Brown of New Orleans was the pioneer j much." Max Hart brought them to Relsen- for Jazz melodies and Bert United States Army. Jazz band It was a big success, and break in the second part of the mini- By WALTER J. KINGSLEY. In using a hat on his trombone for I Kelly and his "Frisco Four" were weber's In , Now York, where they originated the Jazz band. "This was the first and by far the In the spring of 1917 James sent to ber, tho clarinet taking as a solo effects. Jugs were tried by colored Jazz dubbed a "Jazz band" In 1916, as al- scored an Instantaneous and lasting hit. as the pioneers of Jazz best band that ever came from New New Orleans for the Original Dixie- a rooster crow Imitation, followed bv a 13 teasing, provocative Inasmuch a artists, but wero never adopted by ready stated. In 1906 Brown's band They did phonograph records of their music are quarreling over credit to Orleans. Gus Mueller, clarinet player. land Jazz Band nnd Insisted upon their cornet solo. In regular dance tempo, ' tfio 191C monosyllable; It Bets folks white musicians, who declared them from Dixieland canie to Chicago direct "Livery Stable Ulues," which they had an extent that led the police to bo Joined Kelly In prln; of and using the words 'Jazz band.' i Imitating a horse neighing or pony "J dancing, shimmying, swaying. "honkytonk" and "no clous." The from New Orleans. They knew all the adapted from the "Moro I'ower Blues" called nut recently In Harlem when was placed at White City, Chicago, "Tills was In 1917, and the Original calling. This Is followed by a trom- -' following finger snapping. Tho word has a rasp slouchy Jazz musician gets effects with old negro melodies, with the variations and Into which "Yellow" Nunez put two Jazz bands met outside the stage with tho combination: Gus Dixieland Jazz Band was the first New bono solo Imitating tho 'mnolng of a a squealing saxophone by playing play ed by S prlcclo, and once Kelly heard breaks and pony calls and to which door of the Alhambra Theatre, It Is Mueller, clarinet; C. O. Brush, banjo; Orleans band to use term, while ) cow. Then the whole band falls In Xor the nerves that react in steps and the off key. The three great clarinet play- them ho knew that Jazz and "blues" Trombone Edwards added neighing. necessary to submit a sworn state- Fred Miller, saxophone; Jack O'Neill, Bert Kelly used It In 1915. Bert Kelly i together." synchronizing with supersyncopatlon. ers of Jazz are "Yellow" Nunez at wero going to be popular, to he signed All this, however, was derived from the ment by Bert Kelly. This Is exhibit piano, and Fred Oxenius, drums. At twenty had about orchtstras known as Sophie Shore In "Whence comes the noun "Jazz" and Relsenweber's, Gus Mueller, now In the up clarinets and cornets who Jazzed. New Orleans blacks and John 8prlcclo. A In the great musical controversy this time Harry James's meteoric ca- Bert Kelly's Jazz Band, and when tho Tucker's It. Is manager th verb "to Jazz"? What sublime army he can play Jazz In any key This bunch from New Orleans played Nunez sold tho number to Roger which raging wherever Jazz players reer as a cafe was starting Dixieland arrived they adopted their Sophlo Tucker la an Innovator !n and Lawrence Shields of tho by ear entirely. meet: and he was In charge of the Boosters' j Jazz It was who first genius of common Dixieland Graham. Larocca, the cornet of the name of 'Original Dixieland Jazz music and she the lowest denom- Jazz Band. "Yellow" Nunez Is tho Club In tho Hotel Morrison, Chicago, " introduced shimmy dancing to New Dixieland Hand In Town. band, claimed It and the case wont to "Tho phrase 'Jazz band' was first Band." inator of music coined this pandemic only man who can take his clarinet court. Judge Carpenter asked Nunez used by Bert Kelly In Chicago In the and had a ladies' orchestra playing for A. J. Baquet, the "first and origi- York. She did a shrug of tho shoul- term? to pieces down to the mouthpiece and Horry Fitzgerald brought Brown's to define "blues," whereupon he made fall of 1915 and was unknown In New his dancing. nal" Jazz clnrlnet player, is now at ders and a wriggle of the arms which keep up with band from the Iambs Cafe, Chicago, to March, 1916, might be called "pollto shimmy" na As head of the bureau of research of the band. his famous reply: Orleans. In the tlrst New Ad of Jass. the Alamo Cafe In 125th street. Ho Bert Kelly Is the Jazz pioneer north New York and tried them out all over "Judge, blues Is blues." Orleans band of cornet, clarinet, trom- I'irnt vrrllarment was In New compared to what passes current In the B. K. Keith Vaudeville Circuit I born and raised Orleans of the Mason-DI.xo- n line. He knows town, but Broadway waa not ready for Tho court held that "blues" could bone, drums and piano arrived in Chi- "Kelly approached him with a propo- and comes of French. Spanish and cabarets nowadays. havo delved deeply Into folk lore of tlio more about Jazz than any man living them. They went Into vaudeville as not bo copyrighted, Inasmuch as they cago to play In tho Lambs' Cafe; It sition to furnish him with better music, Indian ancestry. At tho start of his Her Instructions to tho Jazz band: African west coast, the Mississippi outside, of tho famous Jazz professor of tho Five Rubes and then broke up. could not be described and orches- was called 'Brown's Band from Dixie- but he could not seo Kelly's figures. career he played entirely by ear, but for effects with "Shimmy Blu," and Raymond Lopez, cornet, Kelly to his prices delta, the Barbary coaat and the Chi- New Orleans, John Sprlcclo, the vet- returned to trated. Kelly says that ragtlmo Is not land.' Tho band was brought from advised James raise later learned to read music and took "Another Good Man Gone Wrong," eran violinist All the famous Jazz Chicago and Joined Kelly, but the exact syncopation and "blues" are not New Orleans on recommendation of and print cards for his tables reading: n course In bid fair to be classics drums, cago underworld on the trail of Jazz. classical music under Prof. wherever artists In this country have imitated others returned to New Orleans. exact harmony. Frisco, who was then dancing In the 'On account of the big expenses of hir- Santo Julffre. This enables him to de- clarinets, cornets, saxophones nr.J In a previous article for The Sun I him or his pupils. He was playing "Yellow" Nunez, who had been guitar Jazz Is mighty Interesting.