Contemporary Jazz Performance

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

    “... black progress and progress for women are inextricably linked in contemporary American politics, and ... each group suffers when it fails to grasp the dimensions of the other’s struggle.”
    —Margaret A. Burnham (b. 1944)

    “He could jazz up the map-reading class by having a full-size color photograph of Betty Grable in a bathing suit, with a co- ordinate grid system laid over it. The instructor could point to different parts of her and say, “Give me the co-ordinates.”... The Major could see every unit in the Army using his idea.... Hot dog!”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “To vote is like the payment of a debt—a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)