1.   A riotous mixture of styles, it hops from American jazz to French poignancy, from bluesy cadences to Cuban rhythms, from Moroccan allusions to gamelan textures.

2.   But American jazz was not popular and his sound did not catch on.

3.   In fact, he helped create the genre in New York City, fusing American jazz and the rhythms of black Cuba along classical lines.

4.   McShann long ago put his stamp on Kansas City and American jazz.

5.   More specifically, Raices, which means roots, tells the story of how Latin traditions and American jazz converged into the brassy percussive sound of salsa.

6.   Never mind that Paris was once the home away from home for American jazz.

7.   Nothing like that had been heard before, and the mixture was one of the first successful meldings of black American jazz with European idioms.

8.   Often in London, Fairbrother steeped himself in the Beatles and Rolling Stones, Billie Holiday, American jazz, Pop art and progressive politics.

9.   She mentions the busloads of Japanese and European tourists who venture up to the home of American jazz but return empty-handed because there is nothing to buy.

10.   She and American jazz have not been the same since.