What Does Black Ambition Sound Like?

'James Reese Europe was already famous when he enlisted to fight in World War I. But the band he took to the frontlines — as part of the famous 369th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Harlem Hellfighters — thurst him, and Black American music, onto the global stage. Jason Moran sits down at the piano to show The United States of Anxiety host Kai Wright how Europe’s band changed music, and how jazz carries the resilient sound of Black history and ambition in America.'