"Another way is to show the musical influence from early blues forms and how they were used by New Orleans jazz musicians and chanteuses such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and others. These morphed into the early jazz and would be absent in this style were it not for an acknowledgement of earlier forms of the blues." I don't understand what you mean. Bessie Smith was an unknown when Buddy Bolden stopped playing, so she didn't influence his music.