So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz 1930-1945. "The Compleat Conductor" Oxford University Press 1998. Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty.

Gunther Schuller (born November 22 1925) is an American composer conductor horn player author historian and jazz musician.