History+of+Jazz+Music

New Orleans was also the center of slave trade. It was also home to the largest number of free African Americans too.
==== People from all over the world came to New Orleans for trading of goods. So many different cultures came to New Orleans that by 1860, 40% of the people in New Orleans were born in another country. Can you imagine all the different cultures living in one place! ====

====In the 1800's a style of music called the Blues was a way for people, specifically African- Americans, to express their pain of lost love, hardship and injustice. ====

Blues is the foundation of jazz music, rock and roll, country music and rhythm and blues.
===="New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born." —Wynton Marsalis ====