Traces jazz from its roots in African rhythm, New Orleans street culture, and the blues to its first recorded sounds and the musicians who shaped its earliest vocabulary.
Follows jazz through its great decades of transformation: the Swing Era's orchestras, bebop's radical turn, cool jazz and hard bop's competing answers, and the instruments and musicians who defined each shift.
Covers jazz's most experimental decades — modal, free, fusion — alongside its most beloved standards, and closes by examining what the music looks like today: who is playing it, where, and why it still matters.
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