No one could deny that in the melting pot of the Blues, Jazz has a predominate  place. Jazz is a fusion of African and European music that was developed in the US in the early part of the 20th century. The style started out as Dixieland jazz in New Orleans in the early 1900s. With the influence of people such as W C Handy, It added to and  became a mixture of brass band marches, ragtime, blues and gospel.

A outstanding feature of early Jazz was that performers improvised together rather than taking solo improvisation spots, which gives it a polyphonic texture. There were sadly few places where African American artists were allowed to perform so Jazz was played in specific bars. As Several types of jazz music developed during the century, many famous jazz musicians appeared and crossed over between styles, musicians such as  Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk to name just a few.

Bix Beiderbecke - Singing the Blues (1927) ... 

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