Early jazz developed: Select one: a. in Paris. b. only in mining towns such as Denver, Colorado c. in cities throughout the United States. d. exclusively in New Orleans

It is believed the expression "Jazz" is a slang word derived from old English "jism" or "jasm" which was used to express strength or spirit or something energetic, and people began to use it in reference to a music genre in the early 20th century; Jazz as music started and was created around the end of the 19th century and beginning the 20th by slave descendants along the Mississippi River in the south of the USA, and more specifically in New Orleans, an Amerian city in the state of Louisiana, but has massively grown in popularity ever since. Thereby the answer would be d.)