The Firsts

Epigrammata 39

Jazz, although an American style of music, in fact owes its original forms to French music.

The Original Dixieland Jass Band --
In New York were close at hand
So in nineteen seven-teen
Dropped the first Jazz record there'd ever been
Origins of Jazz with a certain race
Going further back, if one were to trace
Become harder and harder to find
Just another myth for our place and time
It's Americans all the way down the line.