Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability enables Walter to communicate with aspiring musicians in a way that removes the sense of mystery that sometimes enshrouds our profession.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.