Jazz
April, 1992
In the Nineties, the world got the word, and the word was multiculturalism. But this concept is old news to jazz, which took shape in the multicultural stewpot of turn-of-the-century New Orleans---where the recipe included musical ingredients from Africa, France, Spain and the Southern and Midwestern United States. Jazz continues to open itself to other cultures, and the fusions fascinate.Increasingly, the flow of musical influence is reversing direction: Other cultures are opening themselves to...
