Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Livery Stable Blues

This tune was immortalized by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, when they recorded it in 1917 and became one of the very first jazz records. This great version, however, was waxed ten years later by Fletcher Henderson. Fletcher Henderson led the most successful of the African-American jazz bands of the 1920's. In 1922, he led a band at the Club Alabam, which later moved to the Roseland Ballroom where they stayed for the next ten years. The orchestra continued to tour and record until 1939 when it disbanded, and Henderson joined the Benny Goodman Orchestra as the pianist and arranger. In 1943 Henderson left Goodman's band, although he remained Goodman's arranger. In 1950, health problems definitively prevented him from performing.