New Orleans Jazz Performer On The Trombone At Disneyland, Anaheim Editorial Image

A member of Dixie land Jazz ensemble at the Magic Kingdom in Anaheim performing on a trombone entertaining during the California Resident season Throughout the nineteenth century, diverse ethnic and racial groups — French, Spanish, and African, Italian, German, and Irish — found common cause in their love of music. 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.