Contemporary Jazz Performance

Famous quotes containing the words contemporary, jazz and/or performance:

    “Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    “Kind are her answers,
    But her performance keeps no day;
    Breaks time, as dancers,
    From their own music when they stray.”
    —Thomas Campion (1567–1620)