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.
Edited By: Brian
List Begun: 2022-07-13
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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