I am very passionate about the evolution of Jazz in the United States and New Orleans as an African American Art birthed out of surviving and rebelling slavery. I am very passionate that as a nation we recognize that without West African Drumming and the history in New Orleans that every popular music developed in the last 100 years would not be what it is. I would go as far as to argue that in some ways the birth of Jazz has been the most influential art/music in the last 100 years if you think about it chronologically in its influence on other pop music and art forms after and in its reach to the masses.