By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.
