How Great Musicians Demonstrate A Mutual Respect

Whenever You Face A Man Who's Playing Your Instrument, There's A Competition.

We Created The Spirituals. We Created So Much Great Music, Jazz Chief Amongst Our Innovations, Teaching Us How To Prize Ourselves And How To Speak To One Another, That Our Kids Don't Know That Achievement, There's No Way In The World That Could Be Good For Us.

If You're Not Making Mistakes, You're Not Trying.

In Jazz, Improvisation Isn't A Matter Of Just Making Any Ol' Thing Up. Jazz, Like Any Language, Has Its Own Grammer And Vocabulary. There's No Right Or Wrong, Just Some Choices That Are Better Than Others.

Music Is Always For The Listener, But The First Listener Is Always The Musician