White jazz

White jazz is jazz played by white musicians. This developed at the end of the 19th century in New Orleans with Papa Jack Laine's Reliance Brass Band being formed in 1888. Bix Beiderbecke was a later pioneer of the genre in the Mid-West. Subsequent "white jazz legends" were later identified by music critic Robert Christgau as the guitarists Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, and Jim Hall.