Nick LaRocca
American musician
Died when: 71 years 317 days (862 months)Star Sign: Aries
Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca (April 11, 1889 – February 22, 1961), was an American early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, "Tiger Rag".He was part of what is generally regarded as the first recorded jazz band, a band which recorded and released the first jazz recording, "Livery Stable Blues" in 1917.
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