Dave Brubeck Smithsonian Interview Block 891 (Q7802)

Taylor has said, "This is America's classical music. " This we got to realize, that it's the basic music of every Broadway show you go to, of rock, of movies - especially in a chase scene. It's always jazz. Our classical composers that are world-wide known - and this is what Darius Milhaud told me - if you want to express, you have to use the jazz idiom, just as Bartok used the Hungarian folk ...