Jazz Music and The African American Community

Appreciation Through Re-education...

" Without question, jazz music is a powerful vehicle for human expression.  Everywhere we look or open our ears, we can discern the emotional, creative, and musical effects of this particular mode of human expression.  Interestingly though, when we are discussing jazz music, we are also moving into the realm of controversy.  What is the source, and why does this specific musical expression engender so much praise, or on the other hand is disdained by its critics?

It is crucial at this time that we engage in discussion about jazz music, because we as African-Americans cannot afford the dissension, and to be at cross purposes with one another, as to whether it is only secular, but not sacred...in essence it is both. " M. Ruth McCants, Phd