The Spasm Band

THE SPASM BANDhere's a popular myth about the origins of jazz, a sort of Bible story, in which New Orleans is the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve are horn players who entertain Johns in the whorehouses of Storyville, the city's notorious red-light dis­trict. In this story, jazz is the apple, the fruit of the dives, fuck music, what was playing down­stairs when you lost that last shred of innocence. In early accounts, jazz is sometimes spelled jnss and is sometimes said to be a variation of the w...