In November 1925 Nick LaRocca announced that he was retiring from the music business. He was replaced by 19-year-old trumpeter Henry Levine, who in 1940 brought this kind of repertoire to the NBC radio show The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. With LaRocca's departure Tony Sbarbaro, now the only original member of the ODJB, became the bandleader. The personnel for this final incarnation of the "original" ODJB was Tony Sbarbaro (drums), Henry Levine (trumpet), Artie Seaberg (clarinet), Al Caplan (trombone), and Wilder Chase (piano).Henry Levine, interviewed by Nick Dellow, Jazz Journal International, Oct. 1985, pp. 14-15. The band finished out its contract with New York's Cinderella Ballroom in February 1926, and then disbanded.
In November 1925 Nick LaRocca announced that he was retiring from the music business. He was replaced by 19-year-old trumpeter Henry Levine, who in 1940 brought this kind of repertoire to the NBC radio show The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. With LaRocca's ,departure Tony Sbarbaro, now the only original member of the ODJB, became the bandleader. The personnel for this final incarnation of the "original" ODJB was Tony Sbarbaro (drums), Henry Levine (trumpet), Artie Seaberg (clarinet), Al Caplan (trombone), and Wilder Chase (piano).Henry Levine, interviewed by Nick Dellow, Jazz Journal International Oct. 1985, pp. 14-15. The band finished out its contract with New York's Cinderella Ballroom in February 1926, and then disbanded.