This Is Our Bandstand. If

Trumpet Players See Each Other, And It's Like We're Getting Ready To Square Off Or Get Into A Fight Or Something.

There's So Much Spirit Of Integration And Democracy In Jazz.

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.

I Worry More About The Marketing That's Taken Hold Since The 70s. The Jazz Era, The Swing Era, Those Were Huge. Entire Decades Were Named For Music. In The 1940s - After World War Ii - Changes In Taxation, Ballrooms Closing, People Moving To The Suburbs, And The Onset Of Target Marketing And The Confusion Of Commerce With Art Caused Some Things To Happen As A Result That Have Taken Us Away From Jazz And What Jazz Offers Us.

If You Are Serious About American Culture And You Are Serious About Afro-american Culture, You Are In A Lot Of Pain. You Are Not - You Are Not Smiling About It.