Jazz doesn’t have a specific date when it all started it and there wasn’t a specific person who started everything or one particular culture that influenced jazz. It was a mixing of souls and emotions of many people of many cultures. New Orleans is a multicultural city with influences such as French, Spanish, African, Italian, German, and Irish, they all add a little flavor to the pot. The city of New Orleans has more liberal outlook on life with an appreciation of good food, wine, music, and dancing. These influenced locals to take the sounds of what they heard in churches and the music they heard in barrooms. They began to create a wide musical revolution incorporating ragtime, blues, spirituals, marches. It was also what I think the first