The very subject matter doesn't give much latitude for this. Sidney Bechet (among others) had to flee to Paris to really feel at home as a performer; Bix Beiderbecke was suffocated by his repressive Midwestern family; Duke Ellington had to lease a private railroad car so he and his musicians wouldn't be discriminated against while touring the South. You can't put too much of a USA-all-the-way spin on material like that.
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