Wikipedia on Jazz

[Baker, John]

        On the assumption that that's the earliest we've got for New
Orleans, I've added it to the Wikipedia article.  That seems awfully
late, though - I would have expected something in 1917, or even late
1916.


John Baker


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Of George Thompson
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HDAS has Times-Picayune (N.O.), June 20, 1918.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM>
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:54 pm
Subject: Re: Wikipedia on Jazz

> One more point that I think it would be useful to cover, and I don't
> know the answer:  What's the earliest attestation of "jazz"
> in New Orleans?
>
>
> John Baker

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