13 November 2005

Found this great quote from Martin Luther King Jr about jazz and the blues. It's from a speech he gave at the start of the 1964 Berlin jazz festival. "Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music."