Nothing Else Will Ever Capture The Democratic

The Musicians I Respected Were Much Older Than Me. I Expected Them To Cut My Head, And They Did.

Certain Music, Jazz In Particular, Has The Ability To Make You A Better Citizen Of The World. It Helps You Expand Your World View And Gives You More Confidence In Your Cultural Achievements. Improvisational Jazz Teaches You About Yourself While The Swing In Jazz Teaches You How To Work With Others

Who Creates A Thing Is Not As Important As What The Thing Is. Who Created Baseball? Who Created Basketball? Who Created The Space Program? Who Created - We Could Go On And On. We Could Argue About Who Created Something. We All Are Participants In It.

When I Was 12, I Began Listening To John Coltrane And I Developed A Love For Jazz, Which I Still Have More And More Each Year.

Jazz Music Celebrates Life! Human Life; The Range Of It, The Absurdity Of It, The Ignorance Of It, The Greatness Of It, The Intelligence Of It, The Sexuality Of It, The Profundity Of It. And It Deals With It. In All Of Its... It Deals With It!