Description: "Jazz comes from the soil, where all music has its beginning."--Serge Koussevitzky, 1925
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J azz music is the shout of human feeling and freedom. It is the sound of people listening to one another and building community. It is talking music, “a street-corner conversation with everyone trying to get a word in edgewise,” Tulane University’s Dr. Bruce Boyd Raeburn has written. Now on jazz’s centennial, as a divided world witnesses a rebirth of New Orleans and swing music, JazzTalks Presentations ™ reacquaints us with this emergent piece of American history. Jazz music grew from American