The Louisiana Five was an early dixieland

Dixieland

Dixieland music, sometimes referred to as Hot jazz, Early Jazz or New Orleans jazz, is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s.Well-known jazz standard songs from the...

 jazz

Jazz

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 band that was active from 1918-1920. It was among the earliest jazz groups to record extensively.

History

The Louisiana Five was led by Anton Lada, who played the drums.

The Lousisiana Five which is known to posterity was formed in New York City

New York City

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. Lada recruited the other four members, pianist Joe Cawley, trombonist Charlie Panelli (often spelled "Panely" in contemporary material), and banjoist Karl Berger. Clarinetist Alcide "Yellow" Nunez was in New York with Bert Kelly

Bert Kelly (jazz musician)

Bert Kelly was a jazz band leader who owned Kelly's Stables in Chicago's Tower Town in the 1920s. His jazz band is claimed to have been the first to use that term as Bert Kelly's Jazz Band in 1915....

's band in 1918 before joining the Louisiana Five.

The band recorded extensively for various companies including Emerson Records

Emerson Records

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, Columbia Records

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, and Edison Records

Edison Records

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. They went on to produce such hits as "Clarinet Squawk" and "Slow and Easy." On one recording session they were joined by multi-instrumentalist Bernard "Doc" Beherendson on cornet.
The band was popular in the New York City area in 1919, and also made tours of Texas and Oklahoma.

After Nunez left the band, the group made one more pair of recordings in 1920 with a violin replacing the clarinet.

Discography

• After All (1919)
• A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1918)
• Alcoholic Blues (1919)
• B-Hap-E (1919)
• Big Fat Ma (1919)
• Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me (1919)
• Church Street Sobbin' Blues (1919)
• Clarinet Squawk"" (1919)
• Dixie Blues (1919)
• Down Where The Rajahs Dwell (1919)
• Foot Warmer (1919)
• Golden Rod (1919)
• Heart Sickness Blues (1918)
• Hello, Hello (1919)
• High Brown Babies' Ball (1919)
• I Ain't 'En Got 'Er No Time To Have The Blues (1919)
• I'll Get Him Yet (1920)
• Just Another Good Man Gone Wrong (1919)
• Laughing Blues (1918)
• Land Of Creole Girls (1920)
• Lead Me To It (1919)
• Oh Joe, Get Your Fiddle And Your Bow (1920)
• Orange Blossom Rag (1919)
• Rainy Day Blues (1919)
• Ringtail Blues (1919)
• Slow And Easy (1919)
• Summer Days (1919)
• Sunshine Girl (1920)
• That Shanghai Melody (1919)
• Town Topic Rag (1919)
• Thunderbolt (1919)
• Virginia Blues (1919)
• Weary Blues (1919)
• Weeping Willow Blues (1920)
• Yama Yama Blues (1919)
• Yelping Hound Blues (1919)
• You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't Any (1919)

Sources

"Louisiana Five" on RedHotJazz with audio samples