[Dixielandjazz] Inventing Jazz

[Bill Gunter]

George Thurmond wrote:

>         What's this about someone or some racial group "inventing" jazz!
>Jazz was not INVENTED - it evolved.  . . .  etc.

I don't think anyone said that a particuilar racial group invented "Jazz" - 
Seems to me the question was asked about blacks inventing the BLUES and 
whites inventing DIXIELAND.

JAZZ, on the other hand, was invented by Johann Sebastian Bach!

Respectfully submitted,

Bill "Dig that fugue" Gunter
jazzboard at hotmail.com