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Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.