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The term jazz originated in the southern United States (it is first recorded in 1909, applied to a type of ragtime dance), and it is tempting to speculate that its ancestor crossed the Atlantic on the slave ships from Africa. In the absence of any certain origin, various colorful theories have been put forward - for example, that jazz came from the nickname of a certain Jasbo Brown, an itinerant musician along the banks of the Mississippi ("Jasbo" perhaps being an alteration of "Jasper").
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