When People Conclude That All Is Futile,

Popular Culture Tells You That Schools And Parents Don't Know What's Going On, The Police Are Dogs, Politicians Are All Liars And Scum, And Any Crime That's Not Committed By The Mafia Is Done By The Cia.

As You Know From Reading Many Of These Negro Writers, We Don't Deal Too Much With The Discussion Of Democracy And What It Means And How Improvisation Fits In All That.

When You're Artistic Director Of A Program, You Present The Music You Want To Present.

The Extent Of His Influence Across Jazz, Across American Music, And Around The World Has Such Continuing Stature That He Is One Of The Few Who Can Easily Be Mentioned With Stravinsky, Picasso And Joyce. His Life Was The Embodiment Of One Who Moves From Rags To Riches, From Anonymity To Internationally Imitated Innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong Supplied Revolutionary Language That Took On Such Pervasiveness That It Became Commonplace, Like The Light Bulb, The Airplane, The Telephone.

But The Myth Of Violent Solutions As The Ultimate Solutions Maintains Itself In Much Of Popular Media.