The Blues. It Runs Through All American

I Love Gustavo Dudamel And I Love What He Does For Classical Music, And I Love What He Comes Out Of, El Sistema And The Old Man Abreu. When We Were In Venezuela, I Had The Chance To Go To His Building. He Had, Like, Five Or Six Orchestras Playing Of Kids From The Hood Playing, Like, Mahler's Third Symphony And Shostakovich Fifth And Beethoven. Man, It's Unbelievable. I Mean, They Could Play.

Jazz Is Not Just 'well, Man, This Is What I Feel Like Playing.' It's A Very Structured Thing That Comes Down From A Tradition And Requires A Lot Of Thought And Study.

My Daddy Expected That My Brothers And I And Our Generation Would Make The World A Better Place. He Had Lived In An America Of Continual Social Progress.

When I Did The Abyssinian Mass, I Went Through The Whole History Of The Church Music And The Gospel Music, Even With The Anglo American Hymns, The Afro American Hymns, The Spirituals And How It Developed, Up To Thomas Dorsey And The Dixie Hummingbirds, Going Through The History Of The Music, Jazz Musicians.

The Black Hole In Democracy Is Integrity. The Great Unspoken Is Integrity. When Integrity Is Not First And Foremost, It's Quite Palpable But Not Visible. It's Always There. Jazz Highlights It Because Musicians And Jazz Always Represented A High Level Of Integrity.