Though New Orleans can lay claim to being the birthplace of jazz, and Chicago can boast that it discovered Louis Armstrong, no other city in the world has as deep and rich a jazz history as New York. From Harlem to Greenwich Village, ragtime to swing to bebop and beyond, jazz has inflected and reflected the city's growth and-through the recording, radio, and sheet music industries based there-the entire country's.
Though New Orleans can lay claim to being the birthplace of jazz, and Chicago can boast that it discovered Louis Armstrong, no other city in the world has as deep and rich a jazz history as New York. From Harlem to Greenwich Village, ragtime to swing to bebop and beyond, jazz has inflected and reflected the city's growth and-through the recording, radio, and sheet music industries based there-the entire country's.