Is jazz truly an New Orleans child?

Answer 1

most definitely...born in the storyville district of 'the big easy' around 1900 before spendin' the teenage years in chicago, kansas city and harlem...

Answer 2

Jazz is truly a New Orleans child yes. It is also the only form of music that was born in the United States.

Answer 3

Classical or traditional jazz is usually referred to as New Orleans jazz. So I guess that would indicate that Jazz is a New Orleans child.

Answer 4

Jazz is reborn whenever two or more musicians come together to play this magical music. New Orleans is the most referenced site of origin, but I'm quite sure musicians came together in other places to "birth" jazz.

Answer 5

When instrumentalists got together and accompanied a coffin to its grave in New Orleans they kept their music solemn and funereal. On the way back to the wake they set aside their solemnity and 'jammed'. So, it can be said that syncopated music was born from death. From those humble beginnings it went into the bawdy houses, sleezy 'joints', and became a music that those who lived outside normal society (pimps, prostitutes, gangsters) really began to dig. Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beidebecke, Satchmo, Lil Armstrong, and a host of early musicians emanated from that environment. Its respectability followed in Storyville. Respectability was slow in coming. Yep, New Orleans witnessed it. (Oh, the blues began in the cottonfields it would seem.)

Answer 6

Kind of.

Dixieland and "stomps" (Jelly Roll Morton) started in New Orleans, and jazz essentially evolved from there.

But jazz spread rapidly to New York and other cities.

Answer 7

Yes. The nature of jazz is such that it had to have urban roots for the synthesis. It's an interesting contrast to blues, which required its rural parentage.

Answer 8

NO!......it started during slavery. the slaves would sing and then their songs were transformed to what jazz is today.
*kate..:-)