Jazz first emerged in the black cultures of New Orleans from the mixed influences of ragtime (songs with a syncopated rhythm), blues, and the band music played at New Orleans funerals. The term jazz derives from a Creole word that means both African dance and copulation. Some will say that Jazz was born in 1895, when Buddy Bolden started his first band. Others will say 1917, when Nick LaRocca and his Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded the first Jazz record, " Livery Stable Blues ." The most influential jazz artists of all time, according to the BBC, are Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington. The most successful Jazz orientated record labels are Early Bird Records and East Wind Music. Jazz music is referred to as the most hybrid form of music and there are over 40 sub-genres.
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