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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2005/09

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day...A Tribute
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:48:55 -0400


"The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline,=
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a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its characteristic best, each playe=
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seems to be=E2=80=94and has the sense of being=E2=80=94on his own. Each goe=
s his own way,=20
inventing rhythmic and melodic patterns which, superficially, seem to have=20=
as=20
little relevance to one another as the United Nations building does to the=20
Empire State. And yet the outcome is a dazzlingly precise creative unity."

-John A. Kouwenhoven (1909-1990) American author, educator
"What's 'American' About America," The Beer Can by the Highway: first given=
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as a lecture at the University of Colorado, August 3, 1954 =20

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