In 1922, five high-school teens started a jazz revolution. All attended Austin High School on Chicago's West Side and were mad about jazz—the jazz that was drawn to the city from New Orleans in 1920. That's because Prohibition led to bootlegging, organized crime, and speakeasies and clubs run by gangsters who needed dynamic, high-energy music to keep pa…
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