From Roots to Fusion — Episode 3

Very little of what African-American and Creole bands played in New Orleans was recorded for posterity, in part because recording technology, however primitive, was hard to find. For this reason, some musicians began to emigrate from this southern city to the Windy City, Chicago.

In this third episode of the podcast From roots to fusion not only witness the birth of gospel and country blues —which paved the way for later artists such as Elvis Presley to develop what we still call rock and roll—, but now well-known names such as Joe “King” Oliver, Kid Ory and Louis Armstrong appeared for the first time, who laid the foundations for rock and roll. what was later called, precisely, the sound of Chicago.