Oh by the way, on the issue of  JAZZ  being of White origin.....    The very first Jazz group was Emile Stalebread Lacoume and his Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band, back in New Orleans in the 1890's(all White).     The original jazz band, according to Herbert Asbury's  The Latin Quarter  (1938), was the 'Spasm Band' made up of seven boys, aged twelve to fifteen, who first appeared in New Orleans about 1895. They advertised themselves as the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band.    If Herbert Asbury says so then you know it's true:cool: He was a journalist and a writer who's most famous work is probably The Gangs of New York. He used to go to the big American cities back in the late 1800s and early 1900s and do alot of research and interviews in the red light districts and write true crime stories. Emile Lacoume and his Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band were the first jazz act I'll believe old Herbert Asbury he knew alot about the late 19th and early 20th century American underworld, and Jazz originated in the red light districts (particularly Storyville) of New Orleans, it was the music of the New Orleans underworld. A couple of other White jazz players/groups who were very influential in the early days of Jazz were Papa Jack Laine, Tom Brown, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, the Lousiana Five, and the Original New Orleans Jazz Band, among others. Oh and I mustn't forget about Emmett Hardy the White Jazz player who is known to have outplayed Louis Armstrong :D Also, most of the Black Jazz players in the early, formative years of Jazz were usually not really Black. Most of them were mixed race mulattos, often the mulatto bastard children of Black hookers or maids and White fathers.