Casey Patterson Instagram – Honored to be asked to join the Board of Directors of the @jazzfoundationofamerica along side Richard Parsons, @quincydjones and so many dedicated individuals. The Jazz community has been devastated between New York and New Orleans in COVID. “This extraordinary American music and has offered a precise prism through which so much of American history can be seen — it is a curious and unusually objective witness to the 20th Century. It is the story of two world wars and a devastating Depression — the soundtrack that helped Americans get through the worst of times. Jazz is about sex, the way men and women talk to each other, and negotiate the complicated rituals of courtship; a sophisticated and elegant mating call that has all but disappeared from popular music in recent times. It is about drugs and the terrible cost of addiction and the high price of creativity. It is about the growth and explosion of radio and the soul of great American cities — New Orleans (where the music was born), Chicago, Kansas City and New York (where it grew up). It is about immigration and assimilation and feeling dispossessed — and the music that came to the rescue”- Ken Burns ♥️ We owe so much of our identity in America to Jazz. If you can, please give to @jazzfoundationofamerica Who are caring for those in need.