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Overcoming' Race with Jazz

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National Geographic - The Geography of Jazz

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It may be argued with equal force that one of the most important shrines in the history of jazz was Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem. Minton’s was the place where Bebop was born; the place, really, where the foundations of modern jazz were established. Founded in 1938 by the saxophonist Henry Minton (from whom the establishment took its name) Minton’s Playhouse became, over the next decade, the setting for a revolution in jazz.