[Dixielandjazz] Our word JAZZ

[Marek Boym]

Wow!
No idea how the band sounded, but the wotd seems to have been around fro
quite a while.
Could it have originated in Australia?
Cheers

On 23 January 2016 at 04:53, Jack Mitchell <fjmitch at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> Californians have long boasted that the first appearance of the word JAZZ
> in print was in their newspapers in April 1912, even though it related to
> baseball.
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> I have now found an ad in the December 8, 1910 issue of The Yarragon,
> Trafalgar and Moe Settlement News (truly) for "LADIE'S JAZZ APRONS from
> 1/11". If you haven't worked it out, it's a journal from provincial
> Victoria, Australia. Don't ask me how a jazz apron differs from other
> aprons. I know aprons have nothing to do with jazz, but neither does
> baseball.
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> John Whiteoak of Victoria has found in the Balonne Beacon (published in
> St. George, a small town in western Queensland) for January 25 1913 the
> following item: "A dance was held on Monday night in the Shire Hall by the
> Cricket Club, but there was not a large attendance. Good music was supplied
> by the Jazz Band." We've always been told that the first mention of a jass/
> jazz band was in Chicago in 1916.
>
> Obviously the Queensland group wouldn't have sounded anything like LaRocca
> and Co. and I don't think the word JAZZ was an Australian invention.
> Interesting though.
>
> Best wishes
> Jack Mitchell
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