For many years most jazz critics assumed that the blues were part of jazz – but today we can see that the blues have a separate tradition, and yet they intermingle. Jazz grew out of the blues – and the blues grew out of the African American folk tradition.
An Die Musik (ahn dee moo-zeek), named after the title of a Franz Schubert lieder, is an oasis in what is increasingly becoming a vast wasteland of jazz and creative music in the nation's capital. The club is housed in a town house built in 1920 and located on an attractive block that has been the subject of extensive urban renewal.
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