Reflecting on the wisdom of our jazz elders
In 2021, Shannon J. Effinger celebrated the giants who embody of Black genius.
Jazz musicians have always been my biggest superheroes. Growing up in Bed-Stuy, these mythical gods and goddesses have often supplanted the absent familial figures in my own life and become the mothers and fathers I never had and always yearned for. Everyone from Betty Carter, who lived a half-mile away on St. Felix Street
