Creole, Cajun, Zydeco, Jazz, all are FRENCH in origin thank you very much.   Damn thieves have to try and steal EVERYTHING. Yes, they seemingly do. Creoles are White. Creoles were of course the original French(sometimes Spanish) settlers of New Orleans and their descendants. Creoles are White, Blacks try to call themselves creoles of color but there's really no such thing. An actual Creole does not recognize Blacks as being Creole. Zydeco is Cajun/Creole(White) music, even though alot of Blacks play it now, and play it rather well I will admit. And of course in the beginning Jazz wasn't ever just Black overtime it's just become identified with Blacks, why was jazz spawned in New Orleans?? Yes, because of all of the French Creoles and other Europeans down there. Blacks didn't just pick up White instruments and start playing jazz with no outside influence, even the often very unreliable wikipedia admits that jazz had alot of European influence, although they try to minimalize it, of course:rolleyes:   Jazz is an  American musical  art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in  African American  communities in the  Southern United States  from a  confluence  of  African   and  European  music traditions.     From its early development until the present, jazz has also incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music,  which is based on European music traditions .[2]    They say that what has come to be known as jazz originated in black communities but that's a lie. It originated with European music traditions (of course), that the Blacks tried to copy, same way the Black Blues music originated. Monkey see monkey do(no pun intended). The wikipedia is a notoriously unreliable and liberal site when it comes to issues like music especially. But even they don't try to say jazz was a completely black invention. :cool:      PS- Even the word Jazz originated as White slang. Read about it here, interesting.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_%28word%29   Other proposed origins include French jaser, meaning to chatter or chat, and French chasser, meaning to chase or hunt.  Francaisetfier might find this part interesting, about the etymology of the word jazz.