![]() ![]() ![]() Such people as Fanny Brice, Bert Williams and Will Rogers were regulars. The club to hear this wild, unusual music. In Chicago they had been playing in a gangster-controlled night club called The Casino Gardens for $25.00 per week per member. Historic night in New York was the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, a five piece outfit which had arrived in New York from New Orleans via Chicago. It was not for another twenty years that it severed itself from that bondage moved into the concert hall to be hailed as an art form. One evening, towards the end of 1916 when the Maitre D of the famed Reisenweber's Restaurant in New York stepped into the middle of the dance floorĪnd announced to the bemused audience, "Ladies and gentlemen, this music isįor dancing," he ensured that jazz would henceforth be regarded as dance music. Which includes 60 years of playing from musicians who have made Australia one of the top jazz nations. Moochin' About presents.A HISTORY OF JAZZ IN AUSTRALIAĪn authentic original recordings take us back to 1925 and the beginnings of jazz in Australia. ![]()
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