Answer: The correct answer is that jazz is an African American music that combined blues and ragtime.
Explanation:
Jazz is a music genre that first appeared among the African American people living in their new home, mainly in the city of New Orleans, US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. African slaves came to North America with their musical traditions and preserve them no matter what. Then, they mix their style with European American people and little by little jazz was born. New Orleans was the perfect place, a port where a wide variety of people came together and shared their music.
Blues gave jazz improvisation and ragtime gave jazz syncopation. So jazz is said to be a blend of blue notes, variuos rythms working at the same time, marches, improvisation and rythms that interrupt the usual flow (syncopation).
