Jazz has achieved preeminence throughout the world as an indigenous American music and art form, bringing to this country and the world a uniquely American musical synthesis and culture through the African-American experience and has evolved into a multifaceted art form that continues to birth and nurtures new stylistic idioms and cultural fusions This book is a blessed bounty of reflections, scriptures, prayers, music playlists, and study questions (curiosity rhythms) created to be equally effective for personal and group exploration. Subjects include the following: -Ella Fitzgerald: Ambushed by Grace -Louis Armstrong: Joy on Joy in Joy -Jimmy Scott: Faith in Time -Mary Lou Williams: The Glory of an Open Heart -Billie Holiday: Honesty, Heartache, and Wholeness -John Coltrane: A Love Supreme -Sarah Vaughan: The Majesty of a Light Touch -Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Being Born Again and Again -Kirk Whalum: Grace on Grace -Cyrus Chestnut: Holy Outlandish Freedom -Lizz Wright and Gregory Porter: Praise is a Game Changer! -Terri Lyne Carrington: Jazz is a SpiritJazz has achieved preeminence throughout the world as an indigenous American music and art form, bringing to this country and the world a uniquely American musical synthesis and culture through the African-American experience and has evolved into a multifaceted art form that continues to birth and nurtures new stylistic idioms and cultural fusions -Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Being Born Again