Art Hodes discusses the term 'jazz'

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Art Hodes talks about learning the blues

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Art Hodes discusses reciprocity in his musical career

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Q: “You actually put back into [the jazz scene], not just took out because you started producing records and a jazz magazine that you started and wrote for…”

A: “I was very fortunate. I ran into some collectors. I came from Chicago in '38 to New York where no one listened except other musicians, and here I find people actually paying to hear this music. And in Chicago where I came from, you played the music maybe during a dance set. But otherwise, what you're doing was playing for shows. You are background and here, you're up in front. And it really strikes you immediately that whatever you can do to see this thing continue, you should do it. But I had a lot of help from people like Ralph Gleason and Williams, I forgot his first name. But they had started a jazz magazine. There was a whole movement of John Hammond back in ... they're all jazz moment at that time.”