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The title covers the major sites of jazz's origination and innovations and the impact of associated social and cultural factors. TDC Interactive's editors have assembled a broad range of photographs, recorded examples and video that illustrate legends of ragtime during the peak of the swing era in the mid forties. Historical figures include Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Art Tatum among others.