“ What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder. ”
Music washes away the dust of every day life.
~ Art Blakey
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.