The Jazz Track
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Stops
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- 1BostonTrip origin, Day 1 departure point · Also the return point at trip's end (flight back)
- 2New York CityFirst major jazz-history stop, Days 1-3 · Route starts at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, called the birthplace of modern jazz/bebop · Includes Harlem club row, 52nd Street, Cotton Club, Village Vanguard, Birdland
- 3ChicagoReached Day 4 from Boston, visited Day 5 · Historic South Side jazz district plus the Green Mill in Uptown · Became the jazz capital 1917-1928 after Storyville closed
- 8Dockery PlantationReached via Highway 8 east from Cleveland, Mississippi · Founded around 1895; often cited as a birthplace of the blues
- 9Moorhead, MississippiThe literal location where 'the Southern meets the Dog' (railroad crossing referenced in early blues lyrics heard by WC Handy in Tutwiler)
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