Jazz is a musical art form which has expanded well beyond its own idiom definition, transforming with each age and begetting numerous other popular modern idiom forms in the midst. As an inventive invention of African-American communities basically in the Southern area of the US, jazz finds its earliest roots in New Orleans, where black performers mixed Southern blues, the astonishing diversifications of Caribbean music, and an altered form of traditional EU instrumentation. Resistance to “hot jazz” in the early twentieth century eventually made a contribution to the development of jazz music in the 1930s.

In the 1920s, jazz music had spread to the North, Chicago and New York, where Continue reading →