The New Jazz Audience
August, 1955
The New Jazz AudienceAn exciting new kind of jazz is being played in America today. And it is creating a new kind of jazz audience.Jazz is distinctively American music. It was born in the Deep South and spread from there throughout the rest of the country and then throughout the world. In the beginning, it was played in the honky tonks, brothels, and lowest sort of dives. There was a time when respectable people would have nothing to do with the music. But as jazz grew, so did its audience.In th...