Nick LaRocca, American trumpet player and composer (born 1889)

Nick LaRocca

American jazz cornetist and trumpeter (1889–1961)

Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca, was an American early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, who is credited by some as being "the father of modern jazz". He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, "Tiger…