In the early twentieth century in New Orleans, the capital of Louisiana, United States, was born fusion jazz as a set of musical styles, among which may be mentioned stomps (black songs that come with the tap), the Pats (which are accompanied by slapping knees and thighs) and themes that run with banjo in the rural areas of Kentucky. In the late nineteenth century ragtime had arisen, a type of melody too syncopated for the criteria of that period. Shortly thereafter spread the "black spiritual" and in 1913, had already imposed the blues, that during the First World War became popular in Europe. Originally, the blues developed as a form of music, and jazz, as his method of interpretation.
The hot jazz was born and began to develop in Storyville, a slum of New Orleans, between 1895 and 1917. from there it spread to Chicago, where he reigned from 1918 to 1930. some of the most famous jazz names were those of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. In the 1940s, as opposed to hot, cool jazz appeared. Its most outstanding performers were Miles Davis and John Coltrane
Jazz reached its highest popularity rating during the period of "prohibition" when it banned alcohol and gangs proliferated gangsters who smuggled liquor