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Blue Highways and Sweet Music: The Territory Bands, Part I

by Karl Ackermann
Part 1 | Part 2 OriginsBy the second half of the 1920s, New York had supplanted Chicago as the center of jazz. The Jazz Age"--a label incorrectly ascribed to F. Scott Fitzgerald--could rationally have been framed as the Dance Age." Prohibition, and the speakeasies that it spawned, were packed with wildly enthusiastic patrons of ...