Following World War I, a number of American expatriates settled in Paris and began to build up a jazz scene.
France did not suffer from racial discrimination as much as the US, so a mixture of musical styles from different cultures began to emerge.
Lacking recognition at home, several biguine artists from Martinique moved to mainland France, where they achieved greater popularity in Paris, especially in the wake of the colonial exhibition in 1931.
[2] An important event in that is the creation of the Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934.
[1] Archived 2010-09-26 at the Wayback Machine Starting in the late 1940s the Le Caveau de la Huchette would become an important place for French and American jazz musicians.