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.
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
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.