Weatherday: Recording the Chops

Spinning the pizza dough, Geneva (2005).

Mostly cloudy with a good deal of dry weather and some patchy drizzle.

Highest temperatures 8deg in strong and gusty breezes from the south.

On this day in 1917, the first jazz record was recorded, by the Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company. The two pieces on the disc were "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" and "Livery Stable Blues".

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