That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some pop and rock elements.

Don was a pretty good singer - he came from West Virginia where they sang a lot of country folk music.

1947 was a good year. A lot of the tunes that we've learned, whether from Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Jordan or someone else -- those 1947 tunes come up a lot.

It's one of those things where instead of saying, 'Yeah it's a good idea. We should do that sometime,' we just went ahead and did it.