>>19968752>Jazz on the other hand is african rhythms played on western instrumentation. So pianos and drum sets. So yes. It's western only in instrumentation. In terms of structure it's african and middle eastern.No it literally isn't. Jazz as a genre was coined by the Original Dixieland Jass Band back in 1916. the Original Dixieland Jass Band was all white. They are the first to use the term jass/jazz as a genre and call their music jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WojNaU4-kIBefore that, jazz grew out of New Orleans military marches, which were mixed race but led by white guys.
Western Europe (and North America by extension) has had a tradition of "brass bands" using the same exact set-ups, line-ups and instruments as jazz music that goes back centuries. New Orleans was a melting pot of various music traditions from across Western Europe, North America, and negro slaves but it was white people that combined them all to make jazz, coin jazz, play it first, and record it first.
