The Jazz Age was a term used by F. Scott Fitzgerald to refer to the 1920s, but it was also a cultural movement that took place in America during this decade. It was also known as “the Roaring Twenties”. This movement coincided with the end of the World War I and the introduction of the mainstream radio. The era ended with the crash of 1929, which caused the Great Depression. During this period, America became the wealthiest country in the world, because of its growing industrialization. This caused that people from the rural south moved to urban areas in the north and the Midwest. Among those people, there were many African American musicians who moved from southern cities like New Orleans to New York or Chicago. It was precisely in New Orleans