And that said, while Fort Worth isn’t Chicago or New York, jazz isn’t outré there, anyway:
Fort Worth’s history of jazz has taken innumerable forms since the 19th century. It probably starts with a combination of street-corner singers, moaning the blues in exchange for tossed coins, and a succession of ragtime saloon pianists during the heyday of the cattle-driving Chisholm Trail.
And, playing off the Cowtown riff, Fort Worth is the home of Western swing, arguably a countrified jazz, or jazzified country.
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