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I Grew Up Certain For A While That I Was Going To Be An Anthropologist, Until Film Turned My Head.

Louis Armstrong Is Quite Simply The Most Important Person In American Music. He Is To 20th Century Music (i Did Not Say Jazz) What Einstein Is To Physics.

History Isn't Really About The Past - Settling Old Scores. It's About Defining The Present And Who We Are.

There Are No Ordinary Lives.

I Have Made A Film About Jazz That Tries To Look Through Jazz To See What It Tells Us About Who We Are As A People. I Think That Jazz Is A Spectacularly Accurate Model Of Democracy And A Kind Of Look Into Our Redemptive Future Possibilities.