Sunday Supplement: Byron Pope

This profile of Byron Pope, an American jazz musician living in Geneva, covers: his background, education, career as a teacher and his move to Europe. Pope speaks of; his roots in a poor black family, the opportunity the army gave him to study music, his musical style, the story of his initial inspiration, general lack of encouragement, his life in Geneva, composing Jazz, lack of acceptance and opportunity to perform in Switzerland, his position as an ambassador of Afro-American music and his philosophy of "living clean". He expands on the evolution of jazz and the era of "free jazz", which reflected the social turmoil of that era in the United States. He demonstrates his music theory on the piano and shows the difference between free and structured music.