Because of jazz’s association with brothels, early into Prohibition female musicians were stigmatized as working girls, explains Bruce Boyd Raeburn, jazz historian and curator of Tulane’s Hogan Jazz Archive. However, well-bred, class acts like Creole pianist Jeannette Salvant challenged that stereotype. Here Salvant is pictured on a riverboat with Oscar Celestin’s Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra in the mid-1920s. Photo courtesy of the Hogan Jazz Archive.
