that is dave brubeck's famous take five. you can see the difference between big band, big orchestra and the way these smaller groups favored the improvisation that was characteristic and made modern jazz so appealing to so many people. so, just thinking about some basic music structure. you have a 4-4 time signature. dave brubeck is working in 5/4, and he has all sorts of crazy time signatures that i sure as hell could never play. it is this where i want to focus on for a moment. the state department was seeing something. seeing the relevance and the applicability of this new form of jazz in the places they were going. particularly eastern europe just as much as africa. what then is the ability, if you are a ukrainian, or you are an iraqi or ghanaian and you are hearing that kind of music. what is the message that might be conveyed with that new kind of jazz music? >> they are in different countries. they don't need words. it just sounds upbeat and can mean kind of the same thing. >> it certainly sounds different than the lo