100 Greatest Dixieland Songs

Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton
Criteria: These songs were chosen for their lasting popularity, acclaim, and historical importance. Historical importance includes influence and contributing to a song being played and recorded by other artists, especially other Dixieland artists. Each song is limited to a listing with one artist, although some have more than one significant version.

Background: Dixieland music is a form of Jazz originating in New Orleans near the start of the 20th century. In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jass Band was the first artist to commercially release a Dixieland recording. The main instrument in most cases being the trumpet playing the melody and several other brass instruments improvising around the melody, along with banjo/guitar and drums providing rhythm.

List Begun: 2022-07-13
Greatest Jazz Instrumentals
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
West End Blues record label
King Oliver
King Oliver
Dipper Mouth Blues record label
Bix Beiderbecke
Bix Beiderbecke
Singin' the Blues record label
Jelly Roll Mortong
Jelly Roll Morton
Black Bottom Stomp record label
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Original Dixieland
Jazz Band
Tiger Rag record label
  1. West End Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
  2. Dipper Mouth Blues - King Oliver's (Creole) Jazz Band
  3. Singin' the Blues - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra With Bix and Lang
  4. Black Bottom Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
  5. When the Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
  6. Tiger Rag - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
  7. Struttin' with Some Barbecue - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
  8. Ory's Creole Trombone - Ory's Sunshine Orchestra
  9. Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
10. Doctor Jazz-Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
11. St. James Infirmary - Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five
12. Livery Stable Blues - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
13. Tin Roof Blues - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
14. Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
15. East St.Louis Toodle-O - Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
16. Canal Street Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
17. St. Louis Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
18. Wild Cat Blues - Clarence Williams' Blue Five
19. Riverboat Shuffle - Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra
20. Dead Man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
21. Heebie Jeebies - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
22. Midnight in Moscow - Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
23. Maple Leaf Rag - New Orleans Feetwarmers
24. Basin Street Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
25. Petite Fleur - Chris Barber's Jazz Band
26. Blue Horizon - Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazz Men
27. Muskrat Ramble - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
28. Dixie Jass Band One-Step [Original Dixieland One-Step] - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
29. Burgundy Street Blues - George Lewis
30. Chimes Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
31. It Had to Be You - Isham Jones Orchestra
32. I'm Coming Virginia - Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra
33. Creole Love Call - Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
34. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans - Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven
35. Wolverine Blues - Jelly Roll Morton
36. Cake Walking Babies From Home - Clarence Williams' Blue Five
37. Milenberg Joys - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
38. Mahogany Hall Stomp - Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five
39. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives Me - Sidney Bechet and His Hot Six
40. Twelfth Street Rag - Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra
41. Grandpa's Spells - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
42. Wild Man Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
43. At the Jazz Band Ball - Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang
44. High Society Rag - King Oliver's Jazz Band
45. Perdido Street Blues - New Orleans Wanderers
46. Savoy Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
47. Egyptian Fantasy - Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Footwarmers
48. Variety Stomp - Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
49. The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round - Tommy Dorsey and His Clambake Seven
50. Cornet Chop Suey - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
51. Clarinet Marmalade - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra With Bix
52. The Pearls - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
53. Hotter Than That - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
54. Come On and Stomp Stomp Stomp - Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers
55. Snake Rag - King Oliver's Jazz Band
56. The Minor Drag - Fats Waller and His Buddies
57. Copenhagen - Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
58. South Rampart Street Parade - Bob Crosby and His Orchestra
59. Low Down Blues - Bunk Johnson
60. Tight Like This - Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five
61. Kansas City Stomps - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
62. Ostrich Walk - Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra
63. Down by the Riverside - George Lewis
64. Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
65. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band
66. Bugle Call Blues - Friars Society Orchestra (New Orleans Rhythm Kings)
67. Everybody Loves My Baby - Clarence Williams' Blue Five
68. Big Butter and Egg Man - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
69. Bogalousa Strut - Sam Morgan's Jazz Band
70. Come Back, Sweet Papa - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
71. Shag - New Orleans Feetwarmers
72. Bourbon Street Parade - The Dukes of Dixieland
73. The Jazz Me Blues - Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang
74. Willie the Weeper - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
75. Fidgety Feet - Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
76. Sweet Lorraine - Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra
77. Nobody's Sweetheart - McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans
78. Yes Sir! That's My Baby - Firehouse Five Plus Two
79. Original Jelly-Roll–Blues - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
80. I Found a New Baby - New Orleans Feetwarmers
81. Gut Bucket Blues - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
82. Riverside Blues - King Oliver's Jazz Band
83. Royal Garden Blues - New Orleans Lucky Seven
84. Panama - Friars Society Orchestra (New Orleans Rhythm Kings)
85. Darktown Strutters' Ball - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
86. The Green Leaves of Summer - Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen
87. Kansas City Shuffle - Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
88. Bucket's Got a Hole in It - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
89. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra
90. Beale Street Blues - Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars
91. Magnolia's Wedding Day - Chris Barber's Jazz Band
92. Froggie Moore - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
93. Melancholy - Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers
94. Stock Yards Strut - Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals
95. Indiana - Red Nichols and His Five Pennies
96. Jazz Battle - The Rhythm Aces
97. Madagascar - Wilbur De Paris and His New New Orleans Jazz
98. At a Georgia Camp Meeting - Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band
99. The Chant - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
100. Eccentric - Friars Society Orchestra (New Orleans Rhythm Kings)
20 More Worth Mentioning
101. Alligator Crawl - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
102. Apex Blues - Jimmie Noone & His Orchestra
103. Lazy River - Bechet-Spanier Big Four
104. Sorry - Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang
105. Sobbin' Blues - King Oliver's Jazz Band
106. Once in a While - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
107. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
108. Mr. Jelly Lord - Jelly Roll Morton
109. Farewell Blues - Friars Society Orchestra (New Orleans Rhythm Kings)
110. Sensation Rag - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
111. Ballin' the Jack - Chicago Footwarmers
112. Careless Love - Bunk Johnson & the Yerba Buena Jazz Band
113. The Sheik of Araby - Tommy Dorsey and His Clambake Seven
114. China Boy - McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans
115. That's a Plenty - "Wild Bill" Davison and His Commodores
116. Steppin' on the Gas - Sam Morgan's Jazz Band
117. Four or Five Times - Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra
118. Palesteena - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
119. Sunset Café Stomp - Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band
120. It's a Jam Up - Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra








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