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Was jazz shaped by dancing?

A connection between Jazz music and dance is hardly news to anyone with a knowledge of Jazz. It is why the music was considered so dangerous to the Puritan American tastes. It�s based on African polyrhythms via European instruments.

Apparently you didn't read the article. It's not a newfound connection between jazz and dance - it's that instead of jazz influencing dance, which you so intelligently stated, is well known, but rather dance possibly influenced jazz - a relative unknown to this point. Armstrong altered his style and structure to match dance steps and movement, the reverse of the usual - which is a dancer timing their movement and steps to the beat and swing of the music.