We Looked Up To Our Father. He

If You Looked Around, You'd Be Glad You Couldn't See.

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.

If You Didn't Have The Amalgam Of Blacks And African-type Sensibility And European Sensibility, You Wouldn't Have Jazz. Even In The Negative And In The Positive Ways - If There Was No Slavery And The Abolition Of Slavery, There Would Be No Jazz.

For Black People, We're One Of The Only Groups Of People That For Some Reason To Express Love Of Yourself, In Some Ways, Is Misconstrued As A Dislike For Someone Else.

And That's The Soulful Thing About Playing: You Offer Something To Somebody. You Don't Know If They'll Like It, But You Offer It.