jazz
The greatest American invention.

It's about the notes you *don't* play.

A genre of music few white people can handle.

A revolutionary musical genre birthed in New Orleans in the early 20th Century by black. Jazz arose from the folk and spiritual music traditions of freed slaves in the Mississippi Delta, and is the patriarch of blues, R&B, Rock & Roll, and all contemporary popular music.
You hear a lot of Jazz around Christmastime