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New Orleans Invented Jazz

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New Orleans Invented Jazz
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Did you know jazz was born in New Orleans? In the early 1900s, the city's mix of African, Caribbean and European music collided in its bars and brass-band parades to create something entirely new. You can still hear live jazz spilling out of doorways on Frenchmen Street any night of the week.

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