SoYouWanna learn about jazz?

SoYouWanna learn about jazz?There's one word you can use against all those American culture bashers, all those noses-held-high-ers, a word that even invites reverence from the French: jazz. Part of the silver lining of a very stormy cloud in the U.S.'s history, jazz was the first (and some say the only) American-born art form. (Click the link in the title for an in depth discussion of jazz and its origins)