Whenever You Face A Man Who's Playing

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

The Bandstand Is A Sacred Place.

My Father Was A Teacher, My Mama Was A Community Worker, I Taught In So Many Schools. So When You Get That Experience Of How To Communicate With Younger People, Put That Hand On Them And Give Them That Old-school Feeling, The Maturity And Adult, A Lot Of Our Kids Just Need The Feeling Of That Love, And That's The Frame Of Reference That I Teach From And That's The Frame Of Reference That All Of Our Musicians In The Jazz At Lincoln Center.

The People Are Not Coming Because Of Me. They Didn't Come Before Me. It's Because Of A Lack Of Education And Understanding, So It Makes Me More Motivated. It's Like My Mother Said About Having An Artistic Child - She Learned More From Him And He Gets More Attention And More Of The Love, Not Less.

We All Teach From That Same Frame Of Reference. We're Like Neighborhood - The People Who Have Had The Opportunity Through This Music To Gain A Platform And Spread The Message Of This Music, Which Is Basically Love In A Form Of Communication That's Honest And Truthful.