Who were the first musicians to use suggestive or arbitrary group names?Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five?

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@legallysocial @trademarkblog Jelly Roll Morton.1905

— Elizabeth King (@ElizabethKing) May 9, 2013

@elizabethking @legallysocial He wrote Jelly Roll Blues in 05 but didn’t perform as Jelly Roll then.But certainly a contender.

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Bix Beiderbecke – 1920: Performed w/ “The Black Jazz Babies’bit.ly/10ubr0I

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@elizabethking @trademarkblog The Wolverines (1924)? Red Hot Peppers (1926)?

— Darren Cahr (@legallysocial) May 9, 2013

@trademarkblog Maybe the Black and Tan Orchestra. Here’s a link to a good listhttp://www.redhotjazz.com/bands.html.

— Jon K. Perala (@Peralaw) May 9, 2013

Current leader, earliest known example ofband using an arbitrary or suggestive name: THE FOUR HOT HOUNDS, 1911.

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