What would you include in your version of the history of jazz?

In a seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Rounding everything off, today they pick out 50 key moments in the story of jazz – but what did they miss?Drug busts, razor-sharp tailoring and breathtaking musicianship: yes, it's the turn of jazz, completing our seven-part history of modern music. It's a journey that stretches back to the early 1900s, and takes us from New Orleans to Cuba to Manhattan to Cologne. The greats are included, of ...

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