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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Be Prepared Competent Composer Contribute Execute Expected Function Improvisational Jazz Musicianship Must Nature Performer Prepared Progress Rehearsed Score Simply Truly Who Written

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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.

~Albert Murray

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: May 12th, 1916

Died: August 18th, 2013

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