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In a 2016 opinion piece, writer Seth Colter
Walls argues that a new wave of talented
young artists has helped to bring jazz back
into the mainstream.

Swing is a jazz style that emerged during
the Great Depression. People found solace in
the high-energy music, which allowed them
to temporarily forget their hardships.

Duke Ellington began studying piano at age
seven, and by the time he was a teenager,
he was playing jazz.

New Orleans-born Louis Armstrong was a
pioneer of the improvised jazz solo, which
became a standard element of the genre.