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A balanced assessment would have to acknowledge that Nick LaRocca was an important figure in taking jazz from a regional style to international popularity, the leader of the most influential jazz band of the period from 1917 to 1921, and a good player in a very early jazz style on records such as " Clarinet Marmalade ".
LaRocca's playing and recordings were an important early influence on such later jazz trumpeters as Red Nichols, Bix Beiderbecke and Phil Napoleon.
Nick LaRocca's 1917 composition " Tiger Rag " was covered by Louis Armstrong in several different versions throughout his career, while Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and The Mills Brothers also recorded important and influential cover versions of the jazz standard.
Additional information about Nick LaRocca and his biographer can be found in Salvatore Mugno's novel: " Il biografo di Nick LaRocca.
Come entrare nelle storie del jazz ", Besa Editrice, Nardò ( Lecce ), Italia, 2005.

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