"Out of the struggles of the Negro people against slavery and ghetto life has come the phenomenon of jazz. A truly American music and one of the world's most potent art forms." "So you think he's got a death wish or something?" "No, he's got the jazz, that's all." "You guys gotta get out of the jungle with that witchcraft jazz man!" "Then why'd he do it?" "For the jazz, baby, for the jazz." "He's on the jazz man, he's on the jazz!" "Folks uptown say it's nothing but gutter music!" "Deliver the jazz." "The jazz?" "Ya, the jazz. It's like walking a tight rope, a thousand feet up, without a net..."
