If you’ve come across some of the other things I’ve written for Abbeville, you might have been exposed to my assertion that almost all of American music is Southern music. Therefore, an obvious answer to the question of what do Bluegrass and Jazz have in common would be geographic origin.
Yes, they definitely both come from Dixie, hallelujah. And just as a little sidebar, it still blows my mind that not only do such diverse musical styles as Bluegrass and Jazz come from Dixie, but that they COULDN”T have come from anywhere else. The ingredients that make up Bluegrass and Jazz are specific and unique to the South. I know a lot of Yankees that try to claim Jazz as being from Chicago or New York, but they’re wrong. Although Chicago and New York definitely contributed significant aspects to Jazz after its development, neither location was in possession of one of the key and vital ingredients to the birth of Jazz – a Creole population. Without Creoles, Jazz would have never existed, and nobody else had a Creole population like the one in Louisiana. Sorry, Yankees (not really).
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