Jazz and politics go way back. One can argue that Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings in the 1920s were political since they were a daring push to be taken seriously and treated equally. Most blues recordings of the 1930s and '40s also were political in that they were creative expressions of an impoverished "low-down" life experienced by…
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