[Dixielandjazz] Re Roots of Jazz and Blues

[Mike]

I've always believed that it went back farther than New Orleans. I think 
it goes back to Africa; after that where the slaves(who sang the field 
hollers) came from. There is also a large Western European element to jazz.

Mike




D and R Hardie wrote:
> Why not? Your second suggestion re gospel singing and jazz is almost 
> certainly true - see the Ancestry of Jazz. As for  rural roots of jazz, 
> if we assume the blues a necessary component of early jazz  it probably 
> came to New Orleans  via the rural cornfield/cottonfield  shouts and the 
> riverside coonjine songs. However Jelly Roll said the blues were played 
> in New Orleans before he was born, so it could have evolved there, with 
> the influx of workers from the plantations after the Civil war.
> Dan Hardie
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> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~darnhard/EarlyJazzHistory.html
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> On Saturday, July 15, 2006, at 12:06  PM, Anton Crouch wrote:
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