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The early development of jazz in New Orleans was connected to the community life of the city, as seen in brass band funerals, music for picnics in parks or ball games, Saturday night fish fries, and Sunday camping along the shores of Lake Ponchartrain at Milneburg and Bucktown.
A well-known example of early ethnic influences significant to the origins of jazz is the African dance and drumming tradition, which was documented in New Orleans. By the mid-18th century, slaves gathered socially on Sundays at a special market outside the city's rampart.
Modern jazz took hold in New Orleans in the 1950s when local musicians were exposed to trailblazers such as the great trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and when great players like him arrived in the city to perform. Most artists eager to explore the new music played their regular jobs and then got together to woodshed afterward.
A New Orleans Jazz History, 1895-1927. Even before jazz, for most New Orleanians, music was not a luxury as it often is elsewhere–it was a necessity.
New Orleans’s jazz is a 20th-century type of collectively improvised ensemble music that draws from several sources: ragtime, blues, marches (syncopated brass bands), African American religious music (gospel hymns), European classical music, popular song, minstrelsy, and musicals.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum has the world's largest collection of instruments owned and played by important jazz figures. The collection has, over time, picked up many odds and ends pertaining to jazz, objects which are both historically important and visually distinctive.
Some say jazz grew out the drumming and Voodoo rituals that took place in New Orleans’ Congo Square before the Civil War. Others say jazz was born in 1895, the year Buddy Bolden started his first band.