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“It is said that the expression -'Jazz'- arose during the late nineteenth century in the better brothels of New Orleans, which provided music and dancing as well as sex. 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." When, about 1900, another band adopted the same billing for an appearance at the Haymarket dance hall, the 'Spasms' loaded their pockets with rocks and dropped by to protest the infringement. This prompted the owner of the hall to repaint his advertising placards to read: "Razzy Dazzy Jazzy Band!"
Jazz is not a bad word now, but almost certainly is of extremely low origin, referring to sex before it was applied to music, dancing, and nonsense (i.e., "all that jazz"). "If the truth were known about the origin of 'Jazz' it would never be mentioned in polite society . . .” |
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