I love jazz in the holidays because it soothes suffering while lighting a path to joy.

And yet, the music was born out of sorrow in slavery.

Listening to jazz with slavery in mind recalls the pain of our African American sisters and brothers.

“The foundation of the United States rests on the sweat of my people.” Duke Ellington

But, good jazz makes its way to deliverance.

Five claps take us there.

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