Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.[1] (wikipedia)
Jazz has still not gotten to the point where it is totally, the most, the greatest thing is happening in music.
Look, jazz has always had, because of its origins, that's the only reason. It's the only reason it's like that. Where it came from. It's not accepted.
Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.
To know the tradition of the music, you have to know about certain people and certain concepts. It's a learning process.
Not just younger people but older people, too, because the drums are that kind of instrument where people are not intimidated.
It doesn't have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it's all right now.
I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.
The United States is a beautiful place, you know?
It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.