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Quote for Today: Anaïs Nin
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October 23, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Anaïs Nin, body, Breath, hidden, human, improvisation, jazz, life, music, mystery, secret, theme, vibration, withheld
Quote for Today: Dave Hickey
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October 22, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us–simpatico dudes that we are–while playing this complicated song …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Air Guitar, autonomy, balance, Dave Hickey, democracy, ensemble, framework, freedom, harmony, holding on, jazz, music, rhythm, wire
Quote for Today: Frederick Douglass
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October 21, 2016 by katmcdaniel

I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: expression, Frederick Douglass, happiness, humanity, jazz, misconception, misunderstanding, music, relief, resilience, singing, slavery, sorrow, unhappiness
Quote for Today: Charles Beaumont
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October 19, 2016 by katmcdaniel

The melody got lost, first off. Everything got lost, then, while that horn flew. It wasn’t only jazz; it was …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: anxious, Black Country, blues, Charles Beaumont, insides, jazz, lonely, lost, melody, music, revealing, sad, speak, voice
Quote for Today: Wynton Marsalis
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October 18, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Collaboration, democracy, empathy, ensemble, interaction, isolation, jazz, listening, modernity, music, others, relationship, together, Wynton Marsalis
Quote for Today: Jean-Paul Sartre
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October 17, 2016 by katmcdaniel

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, only notes, a myriad of tiny jolts. They know …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: birth, death, fleeting, inflexible, jazz, Jean-Paul Sartre, moment, motion, music, Nausea, notes, order, sound, time
For the Wanderers: Aves Errantes by La Mano Ajena
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May 29, 2013 by katmcdaniel

La Mano Ajena, Alien Hand, is a Chilean band comprised of Rodrigo Latorre, saxophone, guitar, flute, keyboard and theremin; María …
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Category: Videos | Tags: Aves Errantes, bird, birds, Chilean music, crossing genres, European dance hall, jazz, klezmer, La Mano Ajena, multi-cultural, multi-lingual, music

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