Louisiana Five

The Louisiana Five was an American jazz band that existed from 1918 to 1920.

The Louisiana Five was one of the earliest formations of this kind of music, originated from the recording. The band was founded in New York and led by drummer Anton Lada; they existed except Lada still from pianist Joe Cawley, trombonist Charlie Panelli, the banjo player Karl Berger and clarinetist Alcide Nunez, who had previously belonged to the Bert Kelly band. The formation took a series of shellac records for labels such as Emerson, Edison and Columbia on, including arisen hits like Dixie Blues (May 1919), Virginia Blues (July 1919) and I'll Get Him Yet ( January 1920 ). The pieces included in addition to the recordings of the Original Dixieland Jass band of the first jazz because the Louisiana Five entered a recording studio in December 1918 for the first time just a few months after the first jazz recording, when they recorded five tracks. In one of their recording sessions, multi-instrumentalist Bernard " Doc" worked with Beherendson on the cornet. In 1919, they recorded 49 tracks, 1920, only eight recordings preserved.

The band enjoyed some popularity in the 1919 New York area, where on 23 June 1919, the Alcoholic Blues arose, and went on tour to Texas and Oklahoma. After Nunez, who had co-composed many songs, left the band, the Louisiana Five in 1920 made ​​a few recordings in which a violinist replaced the clarinet of Nunez.