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Jazz for a new America

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 2/10/2011

At the very essence of jazz there is a seismograph that responds to the changing social fabric of America. This was perhaps best encapsulated in the title of Sidney Finkelstein's book Jazz, A People's Music, published over sixty years ago. More recently, a new generation of musicians, born in the West of immigrant parents, have blended jazz with the arts

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