Jazz from Detroit with Author Mark Stryker

You can't tell the history of jazz without telling the history of jazz from Detroit. Scores of world-class jazz musicians have rolled off Detroit’s assembly line for nearly a century. Mark Stryker -- author of the award-winning "Jazz from Detroit (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2019, updated for paperback, 2026) and writer-producer of the new documentary film "The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit" (2025) — explores the musicians and social, economic, and cultural conditions that led to an explosion of jazz in the city in the mid-20th Century and have sustained the legacy until today.

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