Original sentence: Jazz has roots in the combination of American music traditions, including spirituals, blues and ragtime, religious hymns, hillbilly music, and marching band music.Jazz was not applied to jazz music until about 1915, in central California.Small bands of musicians played a seminal role in disseminating early jazz, traveling throughout communities in the West, South, and to northern cities
Edited sentence: " Small bands of musicians, mostly self taught, who led funeral processions in New Orleans played a seminal role in the articulation and dissemination of early jazz, traveling throughout communities in the Deep South and to northern cities.A "...black musical spirit (involving rhythm and melody) was bursting out of the confines of European musical tradition [of the marching bands], even though the performers were using European styled instruments.Jazz has roots in the combination of Middle Africa, Central Africa, West Africa and Western music traditions, including spirituals, blues and ragtime, stemming from Congo, West Africa, western Sahel, and New England's religious hymns, hillbilly music, and European military band music.Jazz was not applied to jazz music until about 1915, when jazz musicians in Chicago began calling their music jazz.What is historically true, though, a type of jazz-like music was around and played by slaves at Square Congo (New Orleans, around 1850 and 1900