
27 Apr All That Jazz
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About this Episode
Birthed between bourbon and beignets, jazz is, as Nina Simone once said, Black classical music. An art formed from sporadic instrumentation, bodies moving freely, and soul. It is the mother of pop, hip hop, funk, rhythm and blues, and more. As we bid farewell to National Jazz Month we celebrate it with the voices of the women who are preserving and shaping the music today. What does it take to archive America’s classical music and who are the unknown women who built it and will carry it forward?
In this Episode

Farrah Griffin
Chair of African-American & African Diaspora Studies; Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies and the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University
“I think that many Hip-Hop artists probably aren’t nominating themselves because they don’t think that the Pulitzer is going to recognize the artistry of what they do. That used to be the case with jazz, too.”