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Since the days of its initiation, jazz has traveled grounds merging with different styles and cultures. Sub genres of jazz, like New Ore land's sound, spreading notes through Latin America and to other subcontinents have emerged with tunes swaying in various styles using numerous musical instruments. The effects of the genre were not just limited to the musical scenario in its hay days.

Even daily newspapers of immensely reputed standards did not spare the genre, or at least the word "jazz". Use of the word was often seen in the headlines despite the vague meaning it portrayed. For instance, a headline in the New York Times published a story that claimed jazz to be the cause of death of a celebrated orchestra conductor - Ureli Corelli Hill. The actual cause had nothing to do with Jazz. A fatal heart attack, a natural cause, was how the conductor had died. This shows the influential effects of jazz from its very beginning in avenues other than music.

According to music legends of the yesteryear, jazz has had a very close relationship with its musical counterpart -  blues music. Blues guitar player and living legend BB King explained the connection between jazz and blues saying, "Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy;s playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going to college, to a school of higher learning". There are musicians who claim the two genres as being an integral part of each other. With an essence of European and African traditions, both jazz and blues are a fusion of similar elements and both emerged from the American south, Afro-American community to be more distinct.