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Jelly Roll Morton would later claim credit for transforming the quadrille, but historians have since proved otherwise. The tune was widely known in New Orleans as Jack Carey by the African American and Creole musicians of the period. Historians tell us, that many of the songs the Cresent City Orchestra developed were later recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band and copyrighted as their own. This was not unusual in the early period of Jazz, since musicians often played with more than one group at a time, and switched bands often.
Punch Miller took over the Cresent City Orchestra in 1919 and replaced Carey on trombone. Jack continued to play in parade bands in New Orleans throughout the 1920s.
Trombonist Jack Carey was the older brother of Thomas "Papa Mutt" Carey, the leader of the Cresent City Orchestra. He was also the author of perhaps the most popular Hot Jazz song of all time. He adapted the song from a book of French quadrilles that his band had been playing around with it, altering the timing and phrasing, and called it Tiger Rag. Jack worked up the second and third sections to show off his clarinetist, George Boyd. The final strain (the 'Hold That Tiger', section) was worked up by cornetist Punch Miller and Jack.