In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has … - Wynton Marsalis

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Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. . . . Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

Wynton Marsalis

In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others.

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