Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 4/2/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!drutx!trb From: trb@drutx.UUCP (BuckleyTR) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Where jazz originated (Reply to past posting) Message-ID: <431@drutx.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 19:27:58 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.431 Posted: Tue Jun 5 19:27:58 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:17:47 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 13 ... Jazz can be traced back to the mid-1800s where documentation of chantings by slaves in the cotton fields was written. The type of chord structures used in this early "jazz" were never produced elsewhere in the world before that time. After the slaves were freed, jazz came to the cities, where not only slaves but whites as well developed the music. However, with rare exceptions, all innovators in jazz were black. Tom Buckley ihnp4!drutx!trb