[There may be duplicate pictures/ I may have different pictures with the same names/ I may have different names with the same pictures] ...forgive my errors and enjoy!

Oh, and YES, I do know B.B. King is NOT Jazz; but, (born in Mississippi and now a Memphis gal) how could I ever leave B. B. King out of anything regarding Southern Music History?
The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still interact in countless ways today.

"The Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of The Peabody Hotel and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg. The Peabody is the Paris Ritz, the Cairo Shepherd's, the London Savoy of this section. If you stand near its fountain in the middle of the lobby... ultimately you will see everybody who is anybody in the Delta..."
-- Author/Historian David Cohn, 1935.