Jazz is a gloriously American art form and has driven our country’s culture for generations, mingling storytelling, improvisation, and richly original styles. Passed from elders to new artists, decade by decade since it was first sparked among enslaved Black communities, jazz evokes our collective history and excites our collective imagination.
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