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.

Jazz Sarah's Global Institute paper