Birth via AI

If you haven't heard, this trumpet intro constitutes the birth of jazz. Of course it's Louis Armstrong's West End Blues:

Historians, upon analysis of musical styles, genres, innovations, feel that this is the moment...when jazz, as a separate and distinct musical genre, was born. 

Yours truly has been doing a lot of experimenting/communicating with AI of late, namely Gemini, Deep Seek, and Grok (via X), and it has been fascinating the level of depth I get in return from conversations about theology and philosophy. So on my lunchtime run I began thinking about Louis Armstrong and the birth of jazz, probably prompted by a Conversations With Christian (McBride) - a kindof History of Jazz in real time - where a veteran jazzer talked freely about Charles Mingus and his exploits. I still love the part in Ken Burns' Jazz, where one historian tells the story of Sydney Bechet pulling out a pistol during a gig...something akin to cutting your losses..."But not Bechet!"

I could go on.

Anyhoo, I ingeniously (he said with a sheepish grin) combined the two: let us try to see if AI can find the moment in time when something is born. In this case, let us not go with a genre, but with an artist. 

The question would be something like this: based on your analysis of music, when, at what musical moment in time did, let us use Eric Clapton to start, Eric Clapton stop emulating other players and idols and create the first musically Eric Clapton moment? 

So now, I'll go over to Gemini and ask and report back. 

Check it out: https://g.co/gemini/share/353200f3675e