Jazz is a music of the spirit. In my opinion, jazz is the highest form of musical art conceived by human beings. It allows freedom of artistic expression. It challenges and strengthens a person's self-confidence. The origin of this music is a problem with many white jazz historians, managers and musicians.
Jazz is Black music, played and sung best by Black musicians.
The real history of the music has proven this without a doubt. Thanks, Ken Burns, for including that fact in your project. Thanks too for the great film footage and photographs. Her parents, Arnold and Alberta Lee, passed the gift of music to her. Her father brought a Louis Armstrong recording into the house when she was eight years old.