December 2009
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“What I’m doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word...”
– Dexter Gordon
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“When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone, in the air. You can...”
– Eric Dolphy
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“Right now, I just want to get away for awhile. I think I need a lot of things....”
– Sonny Rollins, 1958
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Terry Teachout on Louis Armstrong →
Link via 3:AM Magazine.
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“If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping...”
– Art Blakey
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“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something...”
– Miles Davis
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American... →
“You know people have tried to put me off as being crazy,” said Thelonious Sphere Monk. “Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy.” He ought to have known. Monk was one of only a few jazz musicians to appear on the cover of Time magazine (others include Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Wynton Marsalis) and was...
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“My style boils down to this: First of all, I never put more meaning into a...”
– Haruki Murakami
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The Jazz Loft Project →
‘From 1957 to 1965 legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan’s wholesale flower district where major jazz musicians of the day gathered and played their music. Smith’s work has remained in archives until now. The Jazz Loft Project is dedicated to...
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“The directors that have personal, emotional feelings for me are Ingmar Bergman...”
– Woody Allen
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