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Jeanne Lee interview / 1995

Never-before-seen footage of an interview that I did with the great American jazz singer, poet and composer Jeanne Lee (1939 - 2000) in september 1995 after a concert that she and Mal Waldron gave in Antwerp. Me: "How important is tradition?" Jeanne Lee: "Well...I mean, how important is culture?...that's the same thing, the same question you know. In the African-American culture...the music...especially of the African-American culture is like...it's that thing which sustain people in average conditions you know...and if you look at every stage, from the Spirituals to the Blues to New Orleans to Swing to Be-Bop to Post-Bop to Avant-Garde, it's like each era the music synthesized what was going on in the world at the time and people's attitude towards it and how they were able to transcend those things which were negative and turn them into something positive. Culture is a very sustaining thing in people's lives you know, it keeps your spirit alive...and I think tradition in that sense is very important. The other thing is: tradition is a live thing, it's always growing. So the way one responds to something in 1990 may have a lesson from something in 1940 but it's a different world so you have to have a different response...or you have to respond in a way that is appropriate to the time you live in you know. So that's why tradition keeps evolving."