Honors
In 1977, the ODJB classic "Singin' the Blues", co-written by ODJB pianist J. Russel Robinson, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in a landmark 1927 recording by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet and Eddie Lang on guitar, as Okeh 40772-B, recorded on February 4, 1927.
In 2006, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's recording of "Darktown Strutter's Ball", released in 1917 as Columbia single A2297, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
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—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
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Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
And to his honors and his valiant parts
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—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)