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Jazz music: hearts beat for its lively tunes and feet tap to its pulsating rhythms. An art of improvisation and surprise, it is a genre that rejuvenates the soul; jazz was described by American jazz critic John Fordham as the “sound of the skipped heartbeat, the caught breath, and the sudden smile.” Between the 1890s and the 1890s, jazz emerged as a new style of music, developed by African-Americans in New Orleans. It quickly grew as a distinctive genre of…
