You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.
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Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
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.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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