Blues Is Like The Roux In A

If You're Not Making Mistakes, You're Not Trying.

We Created The Spirituals. We Created So Much Great Music, Jazz Chief Amongst Our Innovations, Teaching Us How To Prize Ourselves And How To Speak To One Another, That Our Kids Don't Know That Achievement, There's No Way In The World That Could Be Good For Us.

When I Was 12, I Began Listening To John Coltrane And I Developed A Love For Jazz, Which I Still Have More And More Each Year.

Jazz Music Is America's Past And Its Potential, Summed Up And Sanctified And Accessible To Anybody Who Learns To Listen To, Feel, And Understand It. The Music Can Connect Us To Our Earlier Selves And To Our Better Selves-to-come. It Can Remind Us Of Where We Fit On The Time Line Of Human Achievement, An Ultimate Value Of Art.

The Main Three Components Are The Blues, Improvisation - Which Is Some Kind Of Element That People Are Trying To Make It Up - And Swing, Which Means Even Though They're Making Up Music, They're Trying To Make It Up Together. It Feels Great, Like You're Having A Great Conversation With Somebody.