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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.

There's The Tradition In Jazz Of Having The “battle Of The Bands” And You Do Not Want To Get Your Head Cut When You're Playing.

Jazz Music Is America's Past And Its Potential, Summed Up And Sanctified And Accessible To Anybody Who Learns To Listen To, Feel, And Understand It. The Music Can Connect Us To Our Earlier Selves And To Our Better Selves-to-come. It Can Remind Us Of Where We Fit On The Time Line Of Human Achievement, An Ultimate Value Of Art.

Whenever You Face A Man Who's Playing Your Instrument, There's A Competition.

When Me And My Brother Would Go To See Our Daddy Playing, There'd Be 30 People In The Audience. I Was Only 14 Or 15, But I Realised Something Was Wrong.