"What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz."
- John Edgar WidemanThis statement was written by renowned American author John Edgar Wideman, who is well-known for his perceptive examination of the African-American experience, to highlight the profound cultural ties between jazz and basketball. Wideman, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1941, is well-kno…