Americana Meets Jazz: A Listener's Guide

Jazz and Americana share a common origin point in the blues, and while they are separate sectors of the music marketplace today, artists have been blending and mingling them for decades. This survey of some key crossover artists and albums offers some onramps into a vast and rewarding world of American music.

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