Jason Moran performs at the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival. Courtesy of Newport Jazz Festival cover caption toggle caption Courtesy of Newport Jazz Festival Jason Moran performs at the 2022 Newport Jazz Pageant. Courtesy of Newport Jazz Pageant The inspiration for Jason Moran’s new album, From the Dancehall to the Battlefield, came from a distinguished supply, who handed it down like a household heirloom. Randy Weston, a fellow pianist-composer in the jazz tradition, was nevertheless undertaking in his mid-80s a ten years or so ago, when he welcomed Moran to his house in Brooklyn with an admonishment: You want to know about James Reese Europe. (Weston, an NEA Jazz Learn, died…