Jazz music was born in new Orleans and was spread to the north by such musicans as?
We do not definitely know that jazz was born in New Orleans
however it was certainly a hotbed of the music. And, as jazz
musicians were employed as entertainers on the river boats that
plied the Mississippi, this helped to spread knowledge of the music
as far North as St.Louis and towns in between. When, the red light
area of New Orleans was forcibly closed down on moral grounds, much
of the work for jazz musicians in the city's clubs and brothels
dried up. A forced migration of musicians to all over the US then
began as an economic necessity.