To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.
If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.
In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).