i also played with fela kuti before he played saxophone.important, on the weekend, he would bring the traditional people from nigeria. it was my first live contact with african traditional music. when you hear that music, you go to school. they do things with music that we cannot do. they capture the spirit of a continent itself. that music was swinging before man ever arrived. nature is in rhythm, the crocodiles, birds, everything. that is the foundation of world music. it was a wonderful trip. when we arrived at 11:00 at night, myself and a few others were the tallest of the group. there were about 50 african drummers, and we smell the air, and i said, my answers were taken away from africa for slavery. how great that we can come back here. some of us kissed the ground because we knew that that was our ancestral home >. >> you come back home and then you decide to fight discrimination against african american musicians. talk about forming this organization. >> we had a saxophonist who also played piano. we had john handy. we had a three-d