Jazz hides in plain sight in global culture, a musical revolution that led to soul, rock, funk, and hip-hop in a fascinating story of art, race, rebellion, and freedom in five key American cities New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City, New York, and Los Angeles. This book focuses on jazz's development in the African-American communities of these cities and how its ideas of groove, improvisation, and musical interplay became integral to all of American music. Jazz is a story of art, culture, race, freedom, politics, struggle, and self-expression.pbENDORSEMENTS bp pIt's hard to throw your arms around a universe, but Joel Dinerstein does so with grace and great insight in this essential guide to America's art form. Designed with maximum musical interaction in mind, it guides the reader by offering multiple views on jazz history -its relationship to cities, to Black migration, and to politics its sonic evolution in streets, clubs and concert halls its many personalities, from legends like Louis