Jazbo Brown is semi-legendary, referred to in DuBose Heyward's Jasbo Brown and Selected Poems (1924) as an "itinerant negro player along the Mississippi and later in Chicago cabarets".
Jazbo Brown is a well-known figure, described by DuBose Heyward in his book "Jasbo Brown and Selected Poems" (1924), as a traveling African American musician who performed in Mississippi riverfront venues and later in Chicago jazz clubs.