It Follows The Seasons, Beginning Each Year

You Can Learn As Much About The History From Reading About The Present As You Can Vice Versa, That Is Learning About The Present Through History, Which Is What I Do For A Living.

Louis Armstrong Is Quite Simply The Most Important Person In American Music. He Is To 20th Century Music (i Did Not Say Jazz) What Einstein Is To Physics.

The Stories From 1975 On Are Not Finished And There Is No Resolve. I Could Spend 50 Hours On The Last 25 Years Of Jazz And Still Not Do It Justice.

I Don't Use Composers. I Research Music The Way I Research The Photographs Or The Facts In My Scripts.

World War Ii Is Smothered In Sentimentality And Nostalgia. What's Interesting About Vietnam Is That Sentimentality Is Just Not There, So You're Given Kind Of A Clean Access To It In One Way. It's Also A War That Represents A Failure For The United States. Many People Came Back Feeling Like They Never Wanted To Talk About It Again. And So We Developed A National Amnesia.