I Think That When The Education System

Young Kids Are Always Singing And Painting. When You Get To That Second And Third Grade Level, You're Supposed To Put All That Aside.

The First Jazz Musician Was A Trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, And The Last Will Be A Trumpeter, The Archangel Gabriel.

I Feel That For Years Of Teaching In The Country And Reading Criticism In Books, I Feel Like The Things Most Needed In Our Culture Are The Understanding Of The Meanings Of Our Music. We Haven't Done That Good Of Job Teaching Our Kids What Our Music Means Or How We Developed Our Taste In Music That Reminds Us And Teaches Us Who We Are.

Everything About The Swing Is About Some Guideline And Some Grid And The Elegant Way That You Negotiate Your Way Through That Grid.

Jazz Comes From Our Way Of Life, And Because It's Our National Art Form, It Helps Us To Understand Who We Are.