In the metropoles, Calcutta, and Bombay in the early or middle 1920s, Jazz in India was first performed regularly. The golden age of jazz in India began from the 1930s to the 1950s, when jazz musicians like Leon Abbey, Crickett Smith, Creighton Thompson, Ken Mac, Roy Butler, Teddy Weatherford (who recorded with Louis Armstrong), and Rudy Jackson who toured India to avoid the racial discrimination they faced in the United States., The jazz musicians played in the nightclubs of Bombay, in the 1930s, such as at the Taj Mahal hotel ballroom, many of these musicians were Goans most of whom also worked in the Bollywood film industry and were responsible for the introduction of genres like jazz and swing to Hindi film music.
Indian blues is less prevalent in India than jazz. Interest in the blues in India has only been incidental due to the shared ancestry with jazz.