I was persuaded to take up theater. It married with it in the new spirit of our spirituality where you can't really separate the sacred and the profane. Now, since the early 1980s, most of my music has been geared toward liturgy. And I believe that I have always ministered through music itself in such a powerful storytelling device. I've always looked at it in that way whether I was in a nightclub, a lounge or a sacred space.
Music seems to be able to cross over so many boundaries, it is a perfect way to reach hearts.
I was disappointed. That style of docu-drama or whatever you'd like to call it, using still photos and film footage was good. I'm afraid that the person who has no familiarity with jazz at all might think that the only people who made the music were the Duke Ellingtons and Louis Armstrongs. And while they might be points of light, that's not the reality. The reality is that there were other people who were influential, and it didn't mention a lot of those people.