definition for: #jazz

Americas only indigenous, original art form. Jazz is not a specific style or genre of music, but a creative process that helped shape all musical genres developed since the turn of the 20th century. All other art forms in America are folk art hybrids that originated in other countries and were brought to America. Jazz borrowed from all cultures, and building on the blues, rhythms, spiritual yearnings of African slave, the elements came together organically and originally out of the blood, sweat and tears shed on American soil by an unfree people yearning to be free. Jazz is the only art form that truly belongs to all of us, and combines all our diverse cultural elements into one expansive gumbo.