A Jazz Beat Is A Dynamic Changing

I Subscribe To William Faulkner's' View That History Is Not Just About What We Were Before But Who We Are Now.

The Stories From 1975 On Are Not Finished And There Is No Resolve. I Could Spend 50 Hours On The Last 25 Years Of Jazz And Still Not Do It Justice.

I Think We Continually Need To Understand How Important An Event The War Was - How Defining, How Central To Who We Are. Everything That Came Before It Led Up To It, And Everything Of Importance To This Country - At Least Up To 1940 - Was A Consequence Of It. Even Now There's An Echo Of The War, However Faint, In Almost Everyone's Life.

There Are No Ordinary Lives.

Jazz Is A Very Accurate, Curiously Accurate Accompaniment To 20th Century America.