c. 1910
Jazz Is Born
New Orleans · United States · Cultural · The Modern Age
The story
Congo Square drumming, Creole orchestras and Delta blues met in a city where musicians like Buddy Bolden loosened ragtime into improvisation.
Louis Armstrong carried it to the world; jazz became the twentieth century's defining art form.
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