You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.