Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

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By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the...

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A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

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I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first...

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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see...

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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution...

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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment...

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I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were...

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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you...

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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of...

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The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could...

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come...

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come...