New Orleans Jazz Performers At Disneyland Anaheim Editorial Image

Four of the five New Orleans Jazz Quintet playing dixieland music for guests at the Magic Kingdom during the California Resident special. The 1870s represented the culmination of a century of music making in the Crescent City. During this time, the European classical legacy and the influence of European folk and African/Caribbean elements were merged with a popular American mainstream, which combined and adapted Old World practices into new forms deriving from a distinctive regional environment. Just after the beginning of the new century, jazz began to emerge as part of a broad musical revolution encompassing ragtime, blues, spirituals, marches, and the popular fare of `Tin Pan Alley.` It also reflected the profound contributions of people of African heritage to this new and distinctly American music.