To fully feel the beauty and grace of jazz at its highest level, you must savor the sadness that comes with the joy and the poetry that's baked into the music's history. They are one, like two sides of the same coin. Most exceptional jazz musicians had tragic sides, making one wonder whether greatness was even possible without the demons and deep melanc…
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