Jazz, at its very core, is sex. The one begs the oth­er. Har­mon­ic ten­sion, rhyth­mic ten­sion, and even melod­ic ten­sion, fol­lowed by release match­es the feel of the moment, pas­sion and unrest bent up inside a per­son before the ulti­mate and sud­den exhale. The New York Amer­i­can had this to say of jazz music in 1922, […]

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