Drummers began to mix dotted rhythms and triplets with syncopated eighth-note patterns when playing solo. Tony Spargo (1897-1969) was the drummer for a group called the Original Dixieland jazz band. This was and ensemble of young white musicians who emulated the improvised music they had heard black bands perform in the cafes of New Orlean's Storyville district, the red-right district that spawned much of the early examples of the music that became knows as "jazz." Spargo, generally considered to be the strongest musician in the ODJB, was known for his flamboyant style of playing, much of it based on a syncopated ragtime style.