Jazz: Goodbye to All That

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Some went away in pursuit of music, but others were just looking for an old man's security or a young man's kicks. Some went because life at home was some how thankless, and others left when racial grief overwhelmed them, or when the need for narcotics became too great a torment to bear in the watchful U.S. All went to Europe, and there, for all their mixed ambitions and talents and woes, most have found what they were looking for. As a result, a hundred or so American jazzmen are now residents of...

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