Through Improvisation, Jazz Teaches You About Yourself.

Instead Of Imposing Your Will On Every Situation...focus On Including Everyone Else, And Just That Little Adjustment Of Attitude Gives You The Space To Understand Where And Who You Are.

Jazz Music Celebrates Life! Human Life; The Range Of It, The Absurdity Of It, The Ignorance Of It, The Greatness Of It, The Intelligence Of It, The Sexuality Of It, The Profundity Of It. And It Deals With It. In All Of Its... It Deals With It!

Many Heroic Things Happened During Slavery. And Remember That There Was A National Movement Away From It Even At The Time. The Era Of Reconstruction And Then The Subsequent Dismantling Of Reconstruction Sent Us In A Tailspin. Then We Had The Civil Rights Movement. Now We Have Our First Non-white President. We Have A Pattern Of Moving Apart And Then Coming Back Together Throughout The History Of This Country. Each Time, We Come Closer.

I Think That The Blues Is In Everything, So It's Not Possible To Neglect It. You Hear Somebody Go 'ooh Ooh Oooh,' And That's The Blues. You Hear A Rock N' Roll Song. That's The Blues. Somebody Playing A Guitar Solo? They're Playing The Blues.

Let The Critics Criticize And Let The Doers Do.