The 25 best and most essential Jazz songs from the early days to today
Todd A. Price, The American South Published 8:23 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021 New Orleans jazz legend Donald Harrison plays his jazz version of "When the Saints Go Marching In." Photo: Dinah Rogers, For The Tennessean, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. Jazz is a genre of performances, not songs. Created in the moment through improvisation, every time a song is played i...