Jazz very seldom in its true state is presented to the average public.

And if they do have an idea of jazz which is not quite true.

But the way I feel about it is that it is the only form of art that in a way America has ugh created and given to the world in this century or the past few centuries let’s say.

But I think it’s more of a revival in a different form of what went on in classical music before.

In other words, in the 17th Century there was a great deal of improvisation in classical music, as you know, and because of the fact that there were no electrical recording techniques or any way to permanize or to catch music and to ugh record it.

The music was written so that it could be permanized that way

And ugh so slowly but surely the writing of the music and the interpreters of the written music gave way to more and more interpretation and more and more assertable composition.