Who founded jazz music?

 Paul Whiteman invented jazz. The year was 1874, and most American music at that time was played on old discarded plungers, enormous sheets of tin and dog whistles.

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Nobody is sure who founded jazz music but some say jazz grew out of the drumming and Voodoo rituals that took place in New Orleans’ Congo Square before the Civil War. Others say jazz was born in 1895, the year Buddy Bolden started his first band.

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