The music of Jazz is said to have been conceived in New Orleans and moved up the Mississippi River to Memphis, St. Louis and finally Chicago. Of course that seems to be the history of what we now refer to as jazz, however, the influences of what led to those early New Orleans sounds goes back to tribal African drum beats and European musical structures.
To Me Jazz is the form of expressing yourself in many different styles and various ways. Jazz is said to be the fundamental rhythms of human life and mans contemporary reassessment of traditional values. Volumes have been written on the origins of jazz based on black African American lifestyles. The early influences of tribal drums and the development of gospel, blues and field hollers seems to point out that jazz has to do with human survival and the expression of life.
The origin of the word "jazz" is most often traced back to vulgar term used for sexual acts. Some of the early sounds of jazz where associated with whore houses......

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Title: History Of Jazz
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