I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at

podcast. Peter Martin. And you're listening to the You'll Hear It Podcast.

Today we're going to give you seven key facts about the history and origins of jazz.

Seven?

Can we do maybe like 21 sometime or like 57? Why are we always got to do seven, man? Well, this is actually from a user question who specifically asked for seven. So we've got an excuse now for doing seven.

Let's hear it. And this is going to be, yeah, this might get into one of our heavier episodes in a way because, you know, the histories and origins of jazz we're not going to be

able to do too much joke we'll find a way so this is like a very special episode of family matters

right PBS this is the npr pbs okay so let's listen to the question from our buddy mark out in western

canada vancouver hi peter and adam thank you for answering my question about playing in all 12 keys.

And Adam, you were correct.

My accent is from Western Canada for Vancouver.

And my second question is, what are seven key facts people should know about the origins and

the history of jazz music?

Thanks. All right, thanks, Mark. That's a

great question. And we have, I think, seven things that you could call key factors for the history

jazz. Beat, you want to kick it off? Yeah. Okay, so I think the most important place to start is that the

music originated in New Orleans. So that's the

history and the origins of the music. And, you know, there's a lot of influences. And, you know,

New Orleans was kind of the perfect place for this music to be birthed because, you know, it was like

a very special place and time. I mean, it's still a very special place, but especially kind of, you know, it was like a very special place and time is still a very special

place, but especially kind of, you know, the period of the late 1800s to the early 1900s,

you had a number of different cultures from around the world for that, you know, time period

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