When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.