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Today he plays jazz; tomorrow he betrays his country.
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the mor ...
I've come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I've never got there. ...
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive sa ...
Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no longer passes for musical cultu ...
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's ...
The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline, a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its characteris ...
I shall, I suppose, always remember how
The flock of notes those antique negroes blew
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The analogy between baseball fans and jazz fans is closer, it seems to me, than that between other audiences. The aficionados are ...
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