I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
| Janet Baker, Musician (1933) |
| Count Basie, Musician (1904) |
| Steve Case, Businessman (1958) |
| Kim Cattrall, Actress (1956) |
| Jackie DeShannon, Musician (1944) |
| Loretta Devine, Actress (1949) |
| Jacqueline Emerson, Actress (1994) |
| James P. Cannon, Activist (1974) |
| Charles Eames, Designer (1978) |
| Georgia Harkness, Theologian (1974) |
| George Jackson, Activist (1971) |


