tavis, the people that came before me, what i accept this honor, it's for duke ellington who didn't get one, for lester young, for john coltrane, thelonius monk who didn't get one. thank you for this honor. i appreciate it. i'm them. that's who you're talking about, this music now. i appreciate it, not for me, for everybody that played, died, suffered, and made this music come out. tavis: you have such a grateful spirit. >> thank you for saying that. tavis: a kind, loving, gentle and grateful spirit. >> i have been through a lot, you know. i have been through a lot of stuff and i did not know i would get here. but i made it, i tried to be that way. tavis: how much of the hard stuff did you and your -- endure, the prison and heroin addiction, how much of that brings out the grateful nature that you have? >> i was lucky that i was able to get out of that valley of shadow of death, see. i was lucky because there were so many great young guys that could not get through that. i was lucky. again, how did i know i was going to become that? the same thing that -- go on, keep going on. i am grat

i feel the same as duke ellington that said there are only two kinds of music.ood music and that other kind. some of that good music was written by and george gershwin, some of it was written by amadeus mozart. i have equal love for all of it. tavis: marion anderson. >> it was a privilege to be able to get to know her, to be able to sit with her, and i would ask her always, if you felt like talking, just tell me about being in sweden in 1935, what ever you talk about. she was so sweet. i said, this is not very interesting. tell me about the first time he met the king of norway. she was very humble in the way that she spoke about herself. she always spoke about herself in the third person, she always said "we." without the help of the almighty, she would not have had a performing live at all. "we" went to sweden. or "we" west to england and mclean victoria. -- met queen victoria. it is something i think about a great deal. tavis: i want to end this conversation, sadly, because i could talk for hours. i want to end on the point you make. how it is, after all the a

russia hardly manage to get beyond that there were three well names like louis armstrong and duke ellington would certainly ring a bell with most russians wouldn't perform was only known by a small number of devoted jazz fans jazz hard living gets unerring in russian t.v. radio stations mass media it is too preoccupied with the life of the stars to change the situation young russian before most. jazz decide in favor of book music as it's an easier way to make a living there are only two days a year that jazz music makes headlines in russia it's one fans from across the country flock to the are one hundred. he stayed west of mosco for the jets festival the country's biggest open a jazz event has grown in popularity with more and more musicians from russia and the brood taking part but the first of all don't last the weekend and for the rest of the year jazz in russia seems to be almost completely out of the limelight. i call this is sad is there because because i know a lot and hundreds of people who are devout as a matter of fact this this young lady here the makes this one hundred jazz fes