Discover how New Orleans' cultural blend created jazz through 7 pivotal developments, from Congo Square gatherings to Louis ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged ... the New Orleans music scene and began playing small clubs and parades before Joe "King" Oliver, a fellow horn player, became ...

and the arrival of virtuosos such as New Orleans-born cornet and trumpet player Louis Armstrong and composer Duke Ellington propel the art form to a higher level. In the following decades, jazz ...