Jazz is America's classical music.
Jazz rhythms were created in this country by African-Americans as a tool of communication between each other while working in fields, domestications, and worshipping services. The basic rhythms were combinations of rhythms from the various African slave tribes. Slaves not speaking the same native tongues created their own tool of communication, music . Another form of this means of communication through music is the spiritual and gospel combination. Jazz, spirituals, and gospel are types of music depicting the soulfulness of African-Americans.