My Daddy Expected That My Brothers And

Jazz Is Democracy In Music.

I Feel Like A Lot Of The Fundamental Material, I've Assimilated. So Now The Question Is: Am I Going To Really Get Into My Spiritual Inheritance Of Music And Really Develop My Abilities?

There's So Much Spirit Of Integration And Democracy In Jazz.

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.

It's Like We're Suffering From An Identity Crisis, And That Identity Is In Our Arts And The Fact That We Don't Find It Chief Amongst Our Agendas To Teach Our Kids Who We Are As A Nation And The Battles We've Had On This Ground And How They've Been Successfully Resolved. We Can't Enjoy The Fruits Of The Labor Of Our Ancestors.