[Dixielandjazz] Re Roots of Jazz and Blues

[Mike]

New Orleans had a reputation for being the most accepting of blacks & 
Creoles. This isn't to say that they didn't have their own racial 
problems, but they "tended" to be better than Mississippi, Alabama & 
Georgia.



Gluetje1 at aol.com wrote:
> My thoughts are that this is indeed how and why early jazz could and did 
> happen.  I don't find any other early U.S. city where there was as much 
> interchange of ethnicity (with African descendants included) as New Orleans.