David Lyttle is taking jazz back to America

JAZZ music is the most uniquely American of art forms, but it’s increasingly easy to avoid it there. It is played in specialist clubs, on low-budget niche radio stations.
While its sound still pervades mainstream music through hiphop, the thing itself has never been so marginalised. Its status has been greatly diminished since, pre-rock’n’roll, it was America’s pop music.