Jazz musicians symbolize... a freedom from the taste-making of mass media and an embracing of a vision that has much more to do with aesthetic satisfaction than the gold-rush culture of popular entertainment, where one takes the clichés of adolescent narcissism into the side of the mountain rather than a pickaxe, some pans, and a burro.

The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race (1995). Blues Rebellion Breakdown