Jazz Instrumental Performance

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

    “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)

    “I guard this box, as I would the instrumental parts of my religion, to help my mind on to something better.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)