Hot Jazz (Roaring 20s)

[GroverOverton08]

If Hot Jazz was so popular in the Roaring 20s, Jazz Age, Prohibition Era, whatever you wanna call it- why are the records from the era so rare?

I see a whole lotta reissues mostly from the 40s and 50s, but the original King Oliver's and Original Dixieland Jazz Band records are real expensive. A lot of unknown Okeh hot jazz from the early 20s, too.

Anyway, my theory was that it was underground, since hot jazz was seen as taboo.