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R g I thank you very much for joining me this evening I ve having a real good time talking about Oakland s music history it s been the host to such a diverse and rich music scene across its long history starting with jazz and blues in the ole in the early 1900. At the 1st article to print the word jazz came from the San Francisco bulletin How about that and the jazz scene gained prominence in Oakland from the twenty s influenced by Chicago and New Orleans styles brought by waves of workers migrating in to work on the railroads and ultimately in the shipyards and Oakland s jazz scene was strongly influenced by the blues of course we know about 7th Street and West Oakland which was my hang when I was growing up I did not hang there no I did not because that was in an era when children did not hang frequent places where children were not welcome but I knew about it and I was up and down the street is often is that good soaking it up because it was rich in experience and we went on to hav