Just because you can arrange and produce music doesn't make you less an idiot. He is just better at certain things most aren't. Just like great chess players really aren't genius people, they are just bread to do one thing incredibly well.

As a Canadian, I don't know if you appreciate jazz for what it was. Turning classical inside out and upside down. Black musicians did that. Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane were the Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart of the 20th century. Most "black" music after that, with the exception of funk had very little talent involved other than a good voice or a big ass.

Levi, Brando had sex with anything that moved for 60 years with about 20 illegitimate children to prove it! The "gay" rumors I never understood when he was popping out kids like a bunny rabbit.

I'm not saying they are the same level of composers, I'm saying they were the best the twentieth century had to offer. Jazz was an American thing first and foremost and expanded from there. My "American ignorance" was just stating a difference of perspective. I was just trying to reason why you would feel a certain way and you have to throw your "Canadian Superiority Complex" at me? I wasn't trying to be a jerk, so what do you say we drop the Nationalism and hug it out.