What is jazz?

This is jazz.


Via NPR:

On Dec. 8, 1957, CBS producer Robert Herridge assembled many of the great pioneers of jazz to perform together on live television, as part of "The Sound of Jazz." One of the most memorable performances of the night was Billie Holiday's "Fine and Mellow."


By 1957, Holiday had experienced her share of trouble with drugs and hard living, and her voice was not what it