26 – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band records the first jazz album, Livery Stable Blues. It was a success and paved the way for the first jazz records in US music shops.[1]
Standards
In 1917 standards such as "Indiana" and "Tiger Rag" appeared.[2]
Deaths
April
1 – Scott Joplin, American composer and pianist (born 1868).
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