Jazz Vocal Performance

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

    “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)

    “Prayer is
    The world in tune,
    A spirit-voice,
    And vocal joys,
    Whose echo is Heaven’s bliss.”
    —Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)

    “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)