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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.

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

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.

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

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.