Riginslinger, I don't know anything about Paul Whiteman either, but as I said earlier, I know very little about jazz.

And because I know so little about jazz, I'm not proposing anyone else's name as the "King of Jazz" or the "Queen of Jazz". But it occurs to me that just as there are more than one king and queen at the same time and at successive times, there can be more than one "king and queen of jazz".

Also I'm aware about jazz enough to know that there are different types of jazz-Dixieland jazz, cool jazz, and more that I can't think of off the top of my head.

So maybe there were/are leaders (kings/queens) for each of these types of jazz.

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