Jazz Music Creates So Many

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.

What Takes Its Place Is Very Dry Education. And The Tools That Actually Can Teach You - Singing And Playing, Learning How To Participate With Other People, Spiritual Richness - Are Replaced With A Big Emphasis On How To Memorize Things. That's Such An Incomplete Education. Survival Of The Fittest Used To Mean Being Bigger And Stronger.

The Real Power Of Jazz Is That A Group Of People Can Come Together And Create Improvised Art And Negotiate Their Agendas... And That Negotiation Is The Art

I Didn't Have A Philosophical Understanding Of Music Until I Came To New York. I Didn't Understand How It Applied To My Kind And My Generation. I Thought It Was Just Old People Talking.

I Feel Like A Lot Of The Fundamental Material, I've Assimilated. So Now The Question Is: Am I Going To Really Get Into My Spiritual Inheritance Of Music And Really Develop My Abilities?