Query: Earliest attestation of "Razzy Dazzy Jazzy Band"

[Jonathan Lighter]

No trace of a "razzy dazzy jazzy" anything in NewspaperArchive, ProQuest
Historical Newspapers, Gale 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, the Old Fulton NY
Post Cards site, or the L of C Chronicling America site.

Likewise for "razzy jazzy dazzy," etc.

JL

Herbert Asbury's _The Latin Quarter_ (1936) alleges the following:

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Gerald Cohen <gcohen at mst.edu> wrote:

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> Subject:      Query: Earliest attestation of "Razzy Dazzy Jazzy Band"
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> >> David Gold's 2009 book Studies in Etymology and Etiology
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> >> reproduces a 1989 item which derives the term "jazz" from a New Orleans
> >> "Razzy Dazzy Jazzy Band."
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> >> I'm trying to find evidence for the earliest attestations of this band
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> ame
> >> (with "Jazzy" in the title).  A search of Google turns up various
> items,=
>  but
> >> no hard evidence of the date.
> >> =20
> >> Ads-l researchers have traced the use of "jazz" in a musical sense to
> Ch=
> icago
> >> 1915. (Gold was evidently unaware of ads-l's postings on the term).  Is
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> there
> >> any evidence at all that the name "Razzy Dazzy Jazzy Band" predates
> this=
> ?
> >> HDAS gives 1917 as the earliest date for =B3jazzy=B2 thusfar noticed.
> >> Any information would be very gratefully received.
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> >> Gerald Cohen
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