What was the 1st jazz record with someone soloing?

[Jazz Groove]

Any idea whom this might have been. I would expect it has to date back to the 20's. I've been trying to research this. The earliest I've come up with is King Oliver. Would anyone else know this answer?

[WD45]

That would be the Buddy Bolden cylinders, which Wynton Marsalis heard and was able to emulate for us on Ken Burns' "Jazz."

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Cylinders? Whaddaya mean - Wynton was THERE! How else would he know all those things about people's personalities.

re: the actual question - Schuller singles out Armstrong's solo on "Chimes Blues" with King Oliver (1923) because it is not accompanied by other horns, but still has reservations about it being a true solo ("in character and conception").

How are you defining "solo" - an improvised line made prominent because it is played against rhythm section only? Does it need to be a certain length? Does it need to *not* be a melodic paraphrase or variation on a theme?

Mike