Early New Orleans Citation of “Jas”

Dave Wilton, Monday, June 08, 2009

Ben Zimmer over at Visual Thesaurus has a blog post about a newly found early citation for jas from New Orleans. It’s from 1916, so it doesn’t change the prevailing theory of the origin of jazz, but early citations like this are always interesting.

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