The first part, which took place in New Orleans, where it all began, was considered exclusively the New Orleans sound before it achieved mainstream success. This showed that jazz was not immediately popular. The spread of jazz was seen in Chicago and New York. In Chicago in the 1920s jazz was uniform and less wild and primitive than it was in New Orleans. The jazz musicians who played in Chicago lost the “primitive” sound native to New Orleans, and were rather “polite” and aimed at the white, middle-class audience who frequented the dance halls. In New York, jazz imitated the sound of New Orleans and increased in popularity without having a disciplined sound. It was varied and every person liked it. The development of Jazz showed that its sound was not the same throughout its diffusion, but would change and each city would offer Jazz a different sound. Jazz didn't sound the same in these three