A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.

T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a "pink moon

He is a new and welcome addition to the chorus.

I am not an African. I am an American.