One of my favorite albums to listen to around the Fourth of July is Nightmoves by the jazz singer Kurt Elling. This great record has always expressed to me what America represents: faith, freedom, beauty, and American originals like Walt Whitman and Duke Ellington, whose work Elling covers.
, the jazz critic Stanley Crouch compared the Constitution to the soul of jazz and the blues."There has never been anything more American than jazz," Crouch wrote."Jazz music remade every element of Western music in an American way, just as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution remade the traditions of Western democracy, expanding the idea of freedom to levels it had never known any prior time.
I once got to interview Harry Connick Jr., the jazz musician who once hosted a TV show dedicated to honoring America’s troops."I’m a big fan of our troops," Connick told me."Any chance I get to meet those folks I’m always humbled. To think that these people are dedicating their lives for us, to us, is really a humbling notion, so we wanted to do something special. When I walked out and saw all those impeccably dressed proud Americans out there it makes your heart flutter.
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