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	Nick LaRocca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Rocca was the son of poor Italian-American immigrants.
		La Rocca led this band on tours of England and the United States into the early 1920s, when he suffered a nervous breakdown, and returned to New Orleans and retired from music, going into the construction and contracting business.
		La Rocca may have inadvertently done much damage to his own reputation, especially in some of his statements which are unusually racist even when compared to interviews with other white southerners born in the late 19th century, and his dismissal if not outright insults of his fellow white musicians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nick_LaRocca (787 words)

	Nick LaRocca
		Dominic James "Nick" La Rocca (New Orleans, Louisiana April 11, 1889 - New Orleans February 22, 1961) was an early jazz trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
		La Rocca may have inadvertantly done much damage to his own reputation, especially in some of his statements which are unusually racist even when compared to interviews with other white southerners born in the late 19th century, and his dismissal if not outright insults of his fellow white musicians.
		La Rocca's playing and recordings were an important early influence on such later jazz trumpeters as Red Nichols and Bix Beiderbecke.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ni/Nick_LaRocca.html (752 words)

	Nick LaRocca: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Young Nick was attracted to the music of the brass bands in New Orleans and covertly...
		Trumpeter Nick LaRocca convinced himself, in his old age, that this was literally true,...
		Christian was replaced by Nick LaRocca, and thus Frank Christian missed his chance to be in the Original...in New York, Nick LaRocca of the Original Dixieland Jass Band was concerned about...
	www.encyclopedian.com /ni/Nick-LaRocca.html (929 words)

	Nick La Rocca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nick La Rocca claimed to have invented Jazz and often complained that African-American musicians have been given too much credit for the birth of Jazz.
		The band featured La Rocca on trumpet; Larry Shields on clarinet; Eddie Edwards on trombone; Tony Sbarbaro on drums and Henry Ragas on the piano.
		La Rocca retired from music after that and became a building contractor in New Orleans.
	www.redhotjazz.com /larocca.html (349 words)

	onlarocca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dublin's LA ROCCA have been hard at work in various studios, rehearsal spaces (because 'spaces' is the only way to describe some of them) and occasionally dragging their skinny white arses on stage to get their live-fix with the likes of The D4.
		With derivative rock revelling in it's "15minutesof" LA ROCCA are perfectly poised to deliver that same gut-felt swagger, but with classic songs you will instantly feel as though you have known forever.
		La Rocca release their much anticapated new ep Sing, Song Sung.in two weeks time.
	www.homestead.com /theamc/onlarocca.html (393 words)

	Nick LaRocca Story
		Nick loved a lot the parade band music, such as the one by John Philip Sousa, that he daily heard from a gramophone, repeated with the cornet by ear.
		During the English stay Nick LaRocca recorded in London from April 1919 to May 1920 seventeen pieces for the British Columbia, the first eight with Robinson on piano, and the other nine with the English Billy Jones who, starting the month of January, took the place until the departure of the band for the States.
		Here Nick LaRocca, for many years carried on the activity of building contractor until the minimum limit pension (65 years), suffering from heart since 1958, year when he had to be admitted urgently to an hospital for an attack of angina pectoris.
	www.odjb.com /NickLaRoccaStory.htm (2281 words)

	American BigBands - Page 4 "O" Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was a three story building that had famed vaudevillian Gus Edwards and his review on the first floor; The ODJB and their hot jazz on the second floor, and Emil Coleman's orchestra on the third floor, where the restaurant's society patrons could dine and dance the night away.
		Nick La Rocca was active in music until 1938, when he became a building contractor (while writing music on the side).
		Nick's son - still in New Orleans - is very active and carrys on the tradition.
	nfo.net /usa/o4.html (1044 words)

	La Rocca steps up with Troubadour show - Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		La Rocca took the stage March 31 in an intermediate position after the budding Australian shoegazer sound of Clue to Kalo and before the headlining Her Space Holiday.
		La Rocca's sound was starkly different from the other two bands.
		Whatever the origin of the energy and power behind La Rocca's performance, many audience members were impressed and asked the band upon leaving after the lackluster Her Space Holiday performance, when their debut CD would be released.
	sundial.csun.edu /news/2006/04/17/Entertainment/La.Rocca.Steps.Up.With.Troubadour.Show-1801997.shtml (654 words)

	Auralgasms Artist - La Rocca - Bio
		For La Rocca it spun on a chance 2am meeting at the turn of the 21st century between college reprobates Bjorn and Nick – one drunk, one sober, neither boy backward in coming forward about their love of a good tune.
		All the while, La Rocca were breathing heavy down the neck of a dream.
		As we speak, La Rocca are in the final throes of corralling 30-40 songs in the legendary Sound Factory studio – tunes about love, hate, action, death – a hit-list herd of wild horses being quietly whipped into rock ‘n roll racehorses soon to be unleashed around the world.
	www.auralgasms.com /frameArtistBio.aspx?BandID=larocca (292 words)

	musicHEADLINE.com - La Rocca
		Having formed a little over two years ago, their music can be described as effectively combining melody, noise and energy which has won them quite a large fanbase to date.
		La Rocca have become one of the biggest live draws on the Dublin scene in the past 12 months.
		La Rocca are available for booking throughout the year.
	indigo.ie /~madelein/bandslarocca.html (166 words)

	Foreign Correspondents' Club Hong Kong - The Correspondent - Nov-Dec 03
		Under the leadership of cornet-playing composer Nick La Rocca, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band decided to make a record and in 1917 went into a recording studio – with disastrous results.
		The clarinet and trombone were centralised and the cornet (which carried the lead) was given a prominent position.
		Nick La Rocca was a talented composer and one of his pieces, Tiger Rag, became a Jazz standard later on.
	www.fcchk.org /correspondent/corro-dec-jan04/jazz.htm (550 words)

	La Rocca: The Truth - PopMatters Music Review
		Both La Rocca and the Thrills are from Dublin (La Rocca by way of Cardiff), and both cut their teeth on the London circuit, though this is certainly not unique to the two bands.
		Not so “This Life”, one of La Rocca’s earliest-penned songs, dating back to their Cardiff days and surviving to the present as one of their catchiest numbers.
		La Rocca don’t succeed by being unlike anything you’ve ever heard—they succeed, in the best pop tradition, by sounding familiar yet retaining a sense of identity.
	www.popmatters.com /pm/music/reviews/la-rocca-the-truth (1159 words)

	Nick in Italia: December 2004
		The three of us would drive over, that afternoon, to La Garance, the house where I was to meet up with my family for Christmas.
		In clearer times a giant castle, the Rocca Maggiore, commands the scene like a crow's nest, while the steeples of the dozen or so churches form the bristling masts.
		No one second-guessed him when his drowned body washed up on the shore at La Spezia, though he was cremated on the beach and only his ashes lie here.
	www.nickinitalia.com /archive/2004_12_01_archive.html (9638 words)

	THE ODJB Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The leader of the ODJB was Nick La Rocca, a left-handed cornet player in New Orleans in 1889.
		La Rocca, Shields, Edwards and Sbarbaro remained together throughout most of the remainder of the bands existence.
		As late as 1943, the ODJB rerecorded their 1918 performances of "Tiger Rag" and "Sensation Rag" on a v-disk intended for distribution to American soldiers stationed in Europe and Asia in WWII.
	www.csun.edu /~hbcsc626/ODJB.html (346 words)

	Nicknames
		The nickname came about because my father's father, or his grandfather, weighed just 5 pounds at birth, and it was considered a miracle that such a small baby survived and grew up.
		My mother was a Conte from La Rocca; her family nickname was "zappata" which means to hoe the ground.
		My family's nick name is "sette coppa" which means seven measures.
	www.geocities.com /laroccalulett/Nicknames.html (1039 words)

	reviewed
		La Rocca also made a brief Australian visit in early 2004.
		Apologies if the La Rocca members were inadvertently exposed to Rolf in their childhood.
		The Cops are largely the work of Simon Carter who recorded this in 2003 on an eight-track in his parents' basement "with a crap mic and a pretty damn good vibe".
	www.i94bar.com /reviews/rocca_cops.html (495 words)

	TIME.com: Dixieland -- Jun. 15, 1936 -- Page 1
		La Rocca and Shields were just getting "lipped up." With "swing" more popular than ever before, the old Dixieland Band was about to reorganize, set out on the road again.
		La Rocca would pick it up for a few "licks," pass it on to Eddie Edwards' trombone.
		Soon the metropolis was cavorting to the Dixieland's own tunes, which have since become jazz classics: Tiger Rag by La Rocca, Clarinet Marmalade by Shields and Ragas, Sensation Rag by Edwards, At the Jazz Band Ball by La Rocca and Shields.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,756314,00.html (589 words)

	Tiger Rag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their second recording of the tune on 25 March, 1918 for Victor Records, on the other hand, was a smash national hit.
		It was credited to O.D.J.B. members Nick La Rocca, Eddie Edwards, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields, along with Harry Da Costa.
		However, other New Orleans, Louisiana musicians claimed that the tune had been a standard in the city even before.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tiger_Rag (804 words)

	Original Dixieland Jass Band
		The band's slogan was "Untuneful Harmonists Playing Peppery Melodies", and their leader Nick La Rocca and cornet player delighted in stirring up the press, describing themselves as musical anarchists and coining fun statements like "Jazz is the assassination of the melody, it's the slaying of syncopation".
		The group broke up in 1925 after La Rocca suffered a nervous breakdown.
		In 1940 the band re-formed yet again, but this time without La Rocca and recorded six sides for Bluebird and played up until 1940.
	www.redhotjazz.com /odjb.html (721 words)

	Nick La Rocca
		Dominic "Nick" LaRocca claimed to have invented Jazz and often complained that African American musicians have been given too much credit for the birth of Jazz.
		He was so obnoxious about this, that many people tend to overlook the important contributions he made to the music and the role that the Original Dixieland Jass Band played in popularizing Jazz around the world.
		The group had originally come to Chicago under the name of Stein's Dixie Jass Band with Yellow Nuñez on clarinet, but he was replaced with Larry Shields from Tom Brown's Dixieland Jass Band after La Rocca fired Nuñez for drinking too much.
	atj.8k.com /noartist/atjlarocca.html (387 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Sounds from the American Past
		These composed the very first jazz record ever offered for sale, and before it reached the stores, the Victor sales department felt some explanation was necessary: “Spell it Jass, Jas, Jaz, or Jazz, “the catalog said, ”… ajassband is the newest thing in the cabarets, adding greatly to the hilarity thereof.
		La Rocca and his friends had learned it by listening to fl bands back home, including that of the early cornet master Freddie Keppard, after whom La Rocca had patterned much of his own playing.
		That is why neither of the tunes recorded that February day appears in the superb six-record Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, the first in the distinguished series of reissues that has been released over the past eleven years as part of the Smithsonian Collection of Recordings.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1984/4/1984_4_18.shtml (1201 words)

	Nick LaRocca - AOL Music
		Young Nick was attracted to the music of the brass bands in New Orleans and covertly taught...
		During the English stay Nick LaRocca recorded in London from April 1919 to May...
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	music.aol.com /artist/nick-larocca/8993/main (156 words)

	Italy performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the summer of 2000 a concert was presented in the town of Partanna, Sicily in Italy.
		In Salaparuta they have a beautiful marble concert hall named the "Nick LaRocca Concert Hall" where one of three bronze busts of Nick LaRocca is on display.
		Jimmy LaRocca and Mayor of Salaparuta; Signor Michele Saitta standing with the bronze bust of Jimmy's father, Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca in the Nick LaRocca Concert Hall - Salaparuta, Sicily.
	www.odjb.com /italy_performance.htm (435 words)

	The Edinburgh festival 2004 -- Jazz and Blues Festival
		Today, the present band is under the leadership of Jimmy LaRocca, son of the original leader, Nick La Rocca.
		The time span from Nick's birth in 1899 to today is an incredible 115 years and still counting.
		We heard that the famous Livery stable blues, the tune they played on the 1917 recording, was then called Barnyard blues with no solos and that Victor only decided to include them when it was marketed as "an ensemble all the way" to be sold for dancing, then a huge craze.
	www.edinburghguide.com /festival/2004/jazz/index.shtml?04_08_02_original_dixieland_jazz_band (709 words)

	www.myspace.com/laroccamusic
		La Rocca are influenced by coffee, keeping night-time hours, Dublin streets, friends, LA heat, Barry's Tea, The Clarets, Cribbage,Carter USM, Jose, rottweilers, the Big Beuford, close-hand magic, The Drop-The-Hand campaign, sunrise, sunset and the bit in-between, dog racing and all forms of gambling.
		College friends Nick and Alan met Bjorn, and later his brother Simon, in Cardiff, and what started as a drunken jam ended up here, 3 years later.
		It's only apt that we took our name from a favoured watering hole, the La Rocca cocktail bar, you'll understand why once you meet us.
	www.myspace.com /laroccamusic (993 words)

	JAZZ RHYTHM / Dave Radlauer - ODJB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		NICK LA ROCCA HAS BEEN CALLED A RACIST.
		NONETHELESS LA ROCCA AND ODJB WERE A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON.
		Tiger Ragwas not an original tune when recorded and published by La Rocca.
	www.jazzhot.bigstep.com /generic.html?pid=7 (800 words)

	Improvised Music Company: Jazz & World Music in Ireland - Original Dixeland Jazz Band to play Vicar Street on 30th July (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Livery Stable Blues, and its flipside Dixie Jass Band One Step, went on to sell a staggering 1.5 million copies worldwide, as it kickstarted the birth of jazz, made New Orleans forever synonymous with swinging music, and paved the way for musicians like Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong.
		In 1917, ODJB was led by cornetist Nick La Rocca, an Italian émigré.
		Eighty five years later, the family connection has endured and the band is under the direction of Nick's son Jimmy La Rocca, who like his father, plays the cornet in the authentic New Orleans style.
	www.improvisedmusic.ie /news.html?id=82 (303 words)

	CD Review of Various Artists - Best Of Femo 2004 on Independent @ jazzreview.com
		Their rendition of Nick la Rocca's "Fidgety Feet" is firmly in the spirit of the Original Dixieland "Jass" Band but decidedly up to date.
		Nick La Rocca's compositions return to the forefront when Spar To 1+1 takes the stage.
		Neander's Jazzband romps along with their authentic treatment of the New Orleans perennial "Eh La Bas" featuring a fine vocal by leader Per Neander.
	www.jazzreview.com /cd/review-16961.html (609 words)

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