the wonderful thing about the dizzy gillespie united nation band is when i got there, you had people from brazil, you had people from all over the world. the idea of a common ton finding our diversity, through one sound, making music that we all need to come together, that's a powerful lesson i learned from dizzy, you know, that no matter where you come from, you always have something to say with love for the process, the process of exchange. that was something that i really... that experience, fundamentally very important. and i carried that on myself. >> hinojosa: do you feel like your own work that you've done now as aomposer is takinthat root of what dizzy gillespie said, which is kind of trust... but you've gone back to panama, and you've done beautiful things. >> yes. >> hinojosa: you've rescued a lot of the kind of traditional rhythms and brought them into jazz. and then you did something amazing-- you went and you got a traditional folkloric singer, who sings... what style is it? >> mejorana. >> hinojosa: mejorana. mejorana. >> yes. >> hinojosa: and it's a kind of blues? >> i