Contemporary Jazz Performance

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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)

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