"Jazz music, as is also the case with……" — Albert Murray
"Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies."
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11 Quotes by Albert Murray
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are…
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I am not an African. I am an American.
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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the…
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The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
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As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more…
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Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter…
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Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is…
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A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or…
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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an…
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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for…
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