Nick LaRocca
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 63 years ago |
Date of birth | April 11,1889 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | New Orleans |
Louisiana | |
United States | |
Date of died | February 22,1961 |
Died | New Orleans |
Louisiana | |
United States | |
Music groups | Original Dixieland Jazz Band |
Genres | Dixieland |
Jazz | |
Albums | SICILY JASS SOUNDTRACK |
Dixieland Jazz Band | |
The 75th Anniversary | |
Job | Composer |
Conductor | |
Bandleader | |
Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
Groups | Original Dixieland Jazz Band |
Nationality | American |
Skos genre | Jazz |
Full name | Dominic James La Rocca |
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ID | 529117 |
Nick LaRocca Life story
Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca, was an American early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, who is credited by some as being "the father of modern jazz". He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, "Tiger Rag".