[Ads-l] Antedating of "Harlem Jazz"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Harlem jazz (OED 1923)

1922 Daily News (New York) 15 Feb. 17/3 (Newspapers.com)

The second company of the all-colored revue, "Shuffle Along" ... play for a few months in America and then go to England to show them there what real Harlem jazz sounds like when done by its originators.

Fred Shapiro


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