Randy Weston: A Giant of Jazz, a Giant of a Man

Randy Weston: A Giant of Jazz and in stature (photo cr. wcsufm.org) Jazz is, like the Blues, one of the music genres that is purely and genetically Classical American music in the sense of "classical" denoting "of a form regarded as representing an exemplary standard, traditional and long-established in form or style". Jazz is pure American music. Its creators are Africans who were brought to the Americas so that Jazz's umbilical cord and its genesis are fused with while, at the same time, being...