Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has visited more than one thousand schools over the past decade to teach young people about jazz. The next step is learning to control that self-expression. Don't just blurt something out, adapt it to what the other guy is doing. Being a good neighbor, that's what jazz is all about.
Jazz is democracy in action.
Teaching jazz is teaching the language of community. What both parties seem to have missed is the necessity of action by the civic sector, as the third leg of the milkstool to provide support for a vital America. What both Democrats and Republicans fail to see is that the government and the market are not enough to make a civilization. We're missing the distinctive moral language of a civil society. All of us have to go out in the public square, and all of us have to assume our citizenship responsibilities.