all the musicians, duke ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of america. go to the forefathers of our music. jelly roll martin. they are not thage our music and saying this is for me. a broad riverpbing music, american music, opera that incorporates all to have people in the environment. that is the achievement of jazz. when i say our, i definitely mean all of america. it is not less pertinent for you because it comes from a black person just like a great achievement by an anglo american is less important. tavis: that's the answer i knew you were going to give. >> i get passionate about it. tavis: i know this. i wanted to make the pointer, and you made it clear that it is all of ours. at the risk of violating your personal confidence and our private conversation, i want to put this out there because i know it to be true and i really want you to open this up. juxtaposes nicely against your comment now that jazz belongs to all of us, and yet i know that it does, you tell me, hurt, sing, disappoint. you know where i'm going. where you look out in the audienc

he played with a stunning list of jazz giants such as duke ellington, quincy jones, bennie goodman, as well as elephants jerrold, frank sinatra, and sammy davis jr.. he was one of the musicians at the cotton club which was the first desegregated club. he was one the and -- of the artists to help to end nightclub segregation. he was a school district for many years until he became the principal of the school. after retiring from education, he performed regularly with local artists. he was a friend to teachers and a mentor. before i asked his son to play a selection of his music. this is from the alan smith court that -- quartet. ♪ ♪ >> thank you. with that, i am proud to present this commendation to alan smith for his outstanding contribution to san francisco as music, the arts, and the young people. [applause] >> thank you. on behalf of the entire family, i would like to express how honored we are that you have chosen alan smith for this accommodation. rest in peace, alan smith, thank you. [applause] ha >> thank you. i have the honor of recognizing miss lee on the bridges from district

he played with a stunning list of jazz giants such as duke ellington, quincy jones, bennie goodman, as well as elephants jerrold, frank sinatra, and sammy davis jr.. he was one of the musicians at the cotton club which was the first desegregated club. he was one the and -- of the artists to help to end nightclub segregation. he was a school district for many years until he became the principal of the school. after retiring from education, he performed regularly with local artists. he was a friend to teachers and a mentor. before i asked his son to play a selection of his music. this is from the alan smith court that -- quartet. ♪

catholic and then trying to avert a civil war and the british had to figure out what to do that and duke ellington was born in ireland. and earl of winchelsea said in a letter to the newspaper the duke of rawling 10 in favor of catholic emancipation although he had been opposed in the past he was now in favor and leading the charge and made a very good speech was covering up his sympathies the fact he was secretly sympathizing and the way he cover this up was by pretending to support the king's college of london which was founded as the anglican university in competition with the secular university that was just founded. good to go falling 10 setup the university does this help? i don't know. [laughter] but duke of wellington is very boring and it was a big deal for him he was only in favor because of the war in ireland so he says to earl of winchelsea you have to apologize and he says i cannot so earl of winchelsea calls the second he lost his arm a few days before waterloo but went on to be commander in chief a very distinguished man and talked to 217 and then they have the duel. what happens? a

and the second thing he learned is that -- the duke of ellington fights this fight in england. in 1850 if you challenged somebody to a duel in england, people laugh. it's ridiculous. in 20 years and this is why i talk about moral revolution, it goes from being something that a gentleman can and probably should do to something that is not just now recognized to be wrong, it's recognized to be a source of dishonor. it goes from being the honorable thing to do to being the ridiculous thing to do and there's nothing more dishonorable than being ridiculous. so it goes from an honorable thing to a ridiculous thing just like there. why? that's a complicated story. read the book but a lot of it has to do -- but a great deal of it has to do with the fact that people are demock tiding and it only works to sustain your honor if only aristocrats do it. if anybody can do it, then it doesn't distinguish you from it. and one of the things that happens in the early 19th century is what francis bacon had called earlier -- had called in predicting this, he said once butchers and something like b