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    15 Stylish Jazz Musicians to Celebrate International Jazz Day

    It’s International Jazz Day! From the famous New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a concert series held in Namibia, Africa this weekend, the whole world is celebrating decades of jazz history, and the iconic performers who helped shape it. Jazz has its roots in African American communities in New Orleans, where African and European musical traditions merged to create a wholly American art form. In the 20th century, particularly during the 1940s bebop movement, jazz as we now know it began to