Talk:New Orleans Rhythm Kings

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Latest comment: 18 years ago by Infrogmation

Good work expanding the article. However the claim that the NORK w/ Jelly Roll session was the first racially integrated recording session is one of those misconceptions that somehow keeps being repeated no matter how many times its disproven. In jazz recordings, earlier inter-racial recordings include those of Clarence Williams with Jules Levy and Joseph Samuels some 2 years earlier, and if one is going to count a light skinned Creole of Color like Morton as breaking the color line when playing with white musicians, by the same criteria one would have to label the Original New Orleans Jazz band as an integrated group, and they made their first recordings in New York in 1918. The claim currently in the article doesn't even specify jazz, just "first mixed-race recording session". Bert Williams recorded with white studio bands for Columbia a decade earlier, and George W. Johnson and Len Spencer recorded together at least as early as the 1890s. This explained, I will now modify the article. -- Infrogmation 14:28, 29 June 2006 (UTC)Reply