Louisiana Five
The Louisiana Five were an American jazz band that existed from 1918 to 1920.
The Louisiana Five was one of the earliest formations of this style of music from which recordings were made. The band was formed in New York and led by drummer Anton Lada; In addition to Lada, they consisted of the pianist Joe Cawley, the trombonist Charlie Panelli, the banjo player Karl Berger and the clarinetist Alcide Nunez , who had previously belonged to the Bert Kelly Band and the Original Dixieland Jassband (before their recordings). The formation recorded a number of shellac records for labels such as Emerson , Edison and Columbia , including hits such as Dixie Blues (May 1919), Virginia Blues (July 1919) and I'll Get Him Yet (January 1920). Along with the recordings by the Original Dixieland Jass Band , the pieces were among the first in jazz, because the Louisiana Five entered a recording studio for the first time in December 1918, just a few months after the first jazz recording, when they recorded five tracks. The multi-instrumentalist Bernard "Doc" Beherendson took part in one of their recording sessions on the cornet . In 1919 they recorded 49 titles, in 1920 only eight recordings were preserved.
The band enjoyed some popularity in the New York area in 1919, where the Alcoholic Blues was born on June 23, 1919 , and toured Texas and Oklahoma . After Nunez, who had co-composed many titles, left the band, the Louisiana Five made a few more recordings in 1920, in which a violinist replaced Nunez's clarinet.
