Griot: Examining the lives of Jazz's great storytellers, Vol.1Author: Jeremy Pelt Griot is defined as a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa. It is this very concept that inspired trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and now, author, Jeremy Pelt to seek out generations of amazing Black storytellers of Americas indigenous music, Jazz, to record their stories and bring it to the fore. In the first volume of Griot: Examining