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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.

When I Was 12, I Began Listening To John Coltrane And I Developed A Love For Jazz, Which I Still Have More And More Each Year.

What I Really Have In My Head, My Imagination, My Understanding Of Music, I Never Really Get That Out.

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.

The Reason Why The Music [jazz] Is Important Is Because It's An Art Form-an Ancient Art Form-that Takes In The Mythology Of Our People.