Early use of the word ‘jazz’ appears in Chicago Tribune article 100 years ago today (July 11 1915)


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(Sunday, July 11, 1915) — The Chicago Sunday Tribune ran an article today titled, “Blues Is Jazz and Jazz Is Blues” in what’s believed to be one of the earliest, if not the earliest, uses of the word “jazz” as a musical term by a newspaper.