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Episode 39: What Jazz Is and Isn't

Manifesto!

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The Importance of the Blues

Sothe do gallington and louis armstrong, he writes, their work was much more than the result of talent forged by adverse social conditions. For for murray, of the blues is almost the inverse of what has become the standard trope of the blue. The primary emphasis is placed upon aesthetics, not a ethics, right? A, but a aesthetic. It's an existential triumph over the conditions through not only personal strength, but the reclamation of tion.

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