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 Some, like African-American writer Ralph Ellison, be-live that jazz captures the essence of America. For good reason, for in jazz all of the characteristics I mentioned above come together. The solos are a celebration links of london friendship bracelet of individual brilliance that can't take place without thesgroupsefforts of the rhythm section. Beyond that, though, jazz has a connection to the essence of America in a much more fundamental way. It is an expression of the African roots of American culture, a musical links of london medium that exemplifies the culture of the Africans whose culture came to dominate much of what is American.

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