Episode 45: "Sittin' In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s" with Jeff Gold

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In his new book "Sittin' In," Grammy Award-winning record executive and music historian, Jeff Gold, brings to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s in an astounding visual history of American music.Gold talks to us about this explosive moment in the history of Jazz and expounds on these spaces as the center of artistic and social change. These clubs formed a profoundly inclusive and communal scene in American culture and music during a time of otherwise widespread segregation.