Origin of the Blues and All That Jazz, has Ty in a lively, in-depth conversation with Blues & Jazz aficionado, Tom Porter, former Program Director  and General Manager of WPFW Pacifica Radio and Executive Director of the National Jazz Service Organization.  

The episode explores the hidden meanings in the call and response metaphors used to navigate Black people through chattel slavery, the Jim Crow South and the new Jim Crow practices of right-winged racist in these yet-to-be United States. 

Lightnin' Gray tells a brief story about resilience and the innate ability of Black people to find Music and Joy in their souls. 

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