

När jag kom hem igår prydde dessa mitt soffbord, något att snegla på och bli glad av.
"Put it this way. Jazz is a good barometer of freedom...In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say its the only unhampered, unhindered expression of comlplete freedom yet produced in this country"
- Duke Ellington
" Jazz is about peeling away the layers of artifice to get at what is. Jazz looks at a siuation and says, "This is." It might be ugly, it might be shameful, it might be beautiful, it might be revelatory, but all those things are true and part of the American experience. Jazz has afforded us the opportunity to explore the sense of our national character and soul at its most profound center. Involved in that is a certain presence that suggests how we might become as people.
- Ken Burns, Walpole, New Hampshire