Dixieland Jazz started when black musicians in the Cresent City got hold of cast-off Civil War military band instruments. To European instruments and poplar American tunes, African-Americans added what came to be called the swing. Originally played by marching bands for wedding and especially funeral processions, jazz moved indoors, acquired piano and often banjo accompaniment, but kept its basic shape: melody usually in the trumpet, with clarinet and trombone supplying filigree, and bass (or tuba) and drums for rhythm. Jazz funerals can still be found: a band plays the body to the graveyard with the mournful strains of "Just a Closer Walk with Thee," then the funeral party, including "second line" cakewalkers, parades back home raucous songs like "Didn't He Ramble?" The word "jazz," probably of African origin, was—like "jitterbug" and "rock and roll" probably a coarse reference to copulation. By a natural process "jazz music" came to refer to the stimulating sounds coming out of New Orleans's red-light district. Our selection comes from the classic "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey," available on RCA's Dixieland: Pete Fountain and Other All-Star Dixielanders. (AU Format) (Real Audio Format)