Louis Armstrong Is Jazz. He Represents What

As Long As There Is Democracy, There Will Be People Wanting To Play Jazz Because Nothing Else Will Ever So Perfectly Capture The Democratic Process In Sound. Jazz Means Working Things Out Musically With Other People. You Have To Listen To Other Musicians And Play With Them Even If You Don't Agree With What They're Playing. It Teaches You The Very Opposite Of Racism And Anti-semitism. It Teaches You That The World Is Big Enough To Accommodate Us All.

Music Is The Art Of All The Invisible Things That Are Real. Art, Emotion, Spiritual Essence, Consciousness - These Things Are Hard To Prove. Music Helps You To Focus On Your Sound. We Understand That For Very Young Kids.

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Don't Settle For Style. Succeed In Substance.

The History Of Jazz Lets Us Know That This Period In Our History Is Not The Only Period We've Come Through Together. If We Truly Understood The History Of Our National Arts, We'd Know That We Have Mutual Aspirations, A Shared History, In Good Times And Bad.