A member of Dixieland Jazz ensemble at the Magic Kingdom in Anaheim performing on the drums, entertaining visitors during the holiday season.
The 1870`s 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.n
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