2 Comments
User's avatar
Kyle Kivett's avatar

Thank you for the details on jazz’s early impact on racial integration. From breakfast dances to Mahalia Jackson’s influence on MLK, Jr.’s most famous speech, jazz musicians deserve more credit than they generally receive for their part in creating a vision of equality.

Expand full comment
Steve Provizer's avatar

Absolutely. Public performances were verbotten, so people go together in every other kind of circumstance to play music.

Expand full comment