Some small excursion into the history of Jazz.

At Congo Square where slaves gathered to sing and dance from the late 18th century onward, is considered the „birthplace“ of Jazz. There ex-slaves adapted the reed, horn and string instruments used by the city’s often French speaking creoles – who themselves preferred formal European music – to play their own African-influenced music.

The first variation was ragtime, beginning in the 1890s. Soon followed Dixieland Jazz, especially on New Orleans’s red-light district. Coronet player Buddy Bolden is credited with being the first true Jazz musician, although pianist Jelly Roll Morton liked to say that he was the one who created Jazz.

In 1917 the red-light district shut down and many jazz musicians dispersed or left the city. In 1919, bandleader King Oliver moved to Chicago, and his star trumpet player, Louis Armstrong, soon followed. The 1920s and 1930s are known as the Jazz Age.