 of Romance CD. And welcome to American Jazz from the George Washington University, a program we produced in association with Exploring the Arts, Tony Bennett's Foundation for Education in the Arts, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Real Jazz at Sirius XM Satellite Radio. January 27, 1885, the birth date for Jerome David Kern, who was born in a middle-class family