In the 1930s, with the immigration of many African Americans to Chicago from the South, jazz became an important cultural movement to the city. Musicians such as Milt Hinton, Harold Ousley, and Norman Simmons promoted the development of jazz and created a Chicago jazz style. The culture was dynamic and was influenced by each city it passed through. Consequently, jazz in Chicago had touches of New Orleans, which came before it, and created its own style which would be further developed by the cities that followed. Here, There and Everywhere uses the interviews of these influential musicians as well as the critical history of jazz, the city, and the African American population to show how Chicago proved itself a necessary stepping-stone in the development of jazz.

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