That's how I feel about the relationship between this country and the astonishing variety of music that we call jazz.
He said "today's third stream" could not truly be called jazz.
By the late 19th century, the music that would be called jazz was springing up there.
But the program, called Jazz, had a disappointing reception in the market and was later dropped.
A few years ago people were calling it ecstatic jazz, which got to the point, but you don't hear the phrase much anymore.
He was one of the people that helped make a new jazz style called free jazz, in the 1960s.
Yet some of the renowned musicians who worked in this Midwestern style were later among the first to play the thing called jazz.
But people go to the Vanguard for another reason: over the years it has consistently featured music that can, without any question, be called jazz.
Of risk, energy, interplay - anything you might want to call jazz - there was barely a trace.
This album gave its name to a new style of jazz called "cool jazz".