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Jazz by its very nature is a bridge across cultures, says the 72-year-old Hancock, whose roots are in classical music. Jazz musicians feed off each other, exchanging, improvising, inspiring and creating together
-- and forbidding nothing.
"Jazz is very open and very willing to be inclusive instead of exclusive," Hancock said. "We all want to live in a jazz world where we all work together, improvise together, are not afraid of taking chances and expressing ourselves."
Jazz's roots among African-American slaves have long spoken to others with no voice but music, Hancock said.
"When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger," he said. "Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom."
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