The word is JAZZ. In essence, they invented it.  Louis Armstrong was the best ever at the jazz trumpet. I wish he would have avoided singing, though. Duke Ellington(Take the A train) and Count Basie(One o clock jump) were giants in the field.  One of my favorites was Etta James(Don't get around much anymore) She isn't well known today but she was in the 1930s and 1940s  If you like Ragtime,and I really do, You probably already know about Scott Joplin who wrote more of it than anyone else. He even wrote waltzes, plays and symphonies. All the theme music for The Sting was his. Jazz sucks anyways. Like Henry Ford called it Moron Music.