Charles Hippisley-Cox writes about his British Dance Band collection:

The first authentic jazz recordings in the UK were “waxed” exactly 100 years ago this month during April 1919.   A group of young guys has just arrived from New Orleans and had taken London by storm.   Columbia swiftly saw their potential and whisked them off to their recording studios and issuing a series of very important recordings.  We have a full set of the “Original Dixieland Jazz Band” Columbia 78s in the British Dance Band Collection held at Heritage Quay and here is a link to one of their UK recordings; Satanic Blues: