Welcome to day 10 of the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

Listening to historical music can really help historical fiction writers to get in character and even inspire the story itself. As I’m writing about the transition from WWI disarmament into the emerging Jazz Age, I’m sharing some public domain recordings of early Jazz from the Original Dixieland Jass Band/Original Dixieland Jazz Band (in the early days it was spelled either way).

To start with, here’s the first Jazz single ever recorded, touched up for listening clarity by Adam Cuerden:

1917: Livery Stable Blues

And some more ODJB:

1917: Dixie Jass One Step

1918: Tiger Rag

1921: Jazz Me Blues