"Livery Stable Blues", 1917 sheet music cover. Credited to early New Orleans jazz musicians Alcide Nunez and Ray Lopez. The tune was recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band; this is generally considered the first jazz recording.
The cover art displays unfortunate minstrel show racial stereotyping. The artwork is by Grim Natwick, later to become a well known animated cartoonist for Fleischer Studios and Walt Disney Studios.
Source: Published by Roger Graham Music Publisher, Chicago, 1917. Scanned by Infrogmation from original in own collection. Previously uploaded to en:Wikipedia 19:24, 12 November 2003
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