Jazz is uniquely American, and Black musicians invented it | Opinion
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Jazz is the only true American art form.
Jazz grew out of the great mix in and around New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th Century. Most of these early, often nameless, musicians were Black.
The inventive musicians would take a piece of metal or glass and massaged their guitar strings bending the notes, flattening the thirds, which evolved into the Blues. In fact, the Blues, in turn, served as the foundation for Jazz.
Louis Armstrong didn’t invent Jazz. But he is credited with being a pioneering force in bringing Jazz into the mainstream. He doing so, he made famous so many blues tunes—