The Ancestry of Jazz

This is the story of the roots of jazz. Where did it emerge. Daniel Hardie investigates the musical families from which Jazz emerged in the beginning of the twentieth century. You will hear of the original Dixieland Jazz Band, of Buddy Bolden's invention of improvised jazz, of New orleans Congo Square. How did the colonial music of the US contribute to the new sincopated music that came to Chicago in 1917. What were the musical sources from which the character of jazz was derived.