Through First-class Education, A Generation Marches Down

The Young Very Seldom Lead Anything In Our Country Today. It's Been Quite Some Time Since A Younger Generation Pushed An Older One To A Higher Standard.

Young Kids Are Always Singing And Painting. When You Get To That Second And Third Grade Level, You're Supposed To Put All That Aside.

Grace Kelly Plays With Intelligence, Wit And Feeling. She Has A Great Amount Of Natural Ability And The Ability To Adapt. That Is The Hallmark Of A First-class Jazz Musician.

My Thing Is, Once You Start To Put A Backbeat On Your Music Or Something That Has A Machine In It, You Have Popularity, But You Lose The Flexibility. And You Lose A Richness.

When I Did The Abyssinian Mass, I Went Through The Whole History Of The Church Music And The Gospel Music, Even With The Anglo American Hymns, The Afro American Hymns, The Spirituals And How It Developed, Up To Thomas Dorsey And The Dixie Hummingbirds, Going Through The History Of The Music, Jazz Musicians.