Young Americans, The New Age of Stateside Jazz
The birthplace of jazz, America has always maintained an intrinsic tie to the improvised genre. From the jaunty angles of ragtime to the swinging bombast of New Orleans big band, be-bop freneticism, West Coast ‘cool’, Afro-Cuban multiculturalism, and amorphous cosmic freedom, the United States lays claim to the definitive lineage of the genre.