Wilbur C. Sweatman was one of the first African-Americans to record Jazz. His first Jazz recordings were made less than two months after The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's "Livery Stable Blues" which is generally considered to be the first Jazz recording. The recordings on this list, other than the Darktown Strutters Ball and Goodbye Alexander are variously labelled as by Wilbur C. Sweatman's Jazz Orchestra/Original Jass Band, Original Jazz Band/Jazz Band, sometimes omitting the middle initial. Copies are known to exist where the band name varies from one side to the other, and sometimes on the same titles from one record to another. The Little Wonder records were released simply as Jazz Band but have been attributed to Sweatman.
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