I Dress Up A Certain Way Because

It's Important To Address Young People In The Reopening Of New Orleans. In Rebuilding, Let's Revisit The Potential Of American Democracy And American Glory.

What Takes Its Place Is Very Dry Education. And The Tools That Actually Can Teach You - Singing And Playing, Learning How To Participate With Other People, Spiritual Richness - Are Replaced With A Big Emphasis On How To Memorize Things. That's Such An Incomplete Education. Survival Of The Fittest Used To Mean Being Bigger And Stronger.

When Did We Begin To Lose Faith In Our Ability To Effect Change?

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.

Jazz Celebrates Older Generations And Not Just The Youth Movement. When You "sell" Only To People Of A Certain Age, You Get Cut Off From The Main Body Of Experience. The Power Of Couple Dancing And Courtship, It's Elegant, And You Wouldn't Realize America Was Once A Nation Of Dancers And Singers Today. People Of All Races Could Dance And Sing.