Discuss the roots of jazz and the elements of jazz that make it unique.

New Orleans
is the birthplace of jazz,
specifically an area called Congo Squarea town square which was a
gathering
place for slaves and free blacks during the 19th-century, as well as a site
for
drumming celebrations, which played a role in the development of jazz.
Congo Square still exists
and is a part of what is now Louis Armstrong Park.
Armstrong is regarded, along with Sidney
Bechetanother New Orleanianas one of
the fathers of jazz. Bechet, technically, was the first
jazz soloist; he
recorded his first album several months before Armstrong entered Okeh
Records's
studio in Chicago in 1922.

Jazz was born from
New Orleans's creole
culture. It used African beats,
European melodies, and some elements of traditional
Native American music to
create a new and uniquely American form. No one is quite sure where the
name
'jazz,' sometimes also spelled or pronounced 'jass,' comes from. Jazz is
traditionally
played along four beats, with improvisation on the fourth beat.
Improvisation is...