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"I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through."
" 사회적으로 중요하지 않은 건 이제 연주 안 할 겁니다. 우리 아프리카 계 미국인 재즈 음악가들의 악기연주능력은 입증됐어요. 이제 우리가 할일은 이 기술을 이용해서 우리의 극적인 이야기와 우리가 겪어온 걸 말하는 겁니다."
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🎉 Remembering Max Roach who was born on this day in 1924.
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💬 "Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling."
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📽 Bill Evans performing the tune "Very Early" alongside his trio including Eddie Gomez (bass), and Alex Riel (drums) live in Norway, 1966.
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📰 "Thelonious is pianistically beautiful. He approaches the piano somehow from an angle, and it is the right angle. He does the thing completely and thoroughly. He hasn't been influenced through the traditional techniques because he hasn't worked through the keyboard composers and, therefore, has his own complete approach of musical thinking. He is such a thinking musician, and I think this is something a lot of people forget about Monk. They somehow feel he's eccentric, but Monk knows exactly what he's doing. Structurally, and musically, he's very aware of every note he plays." – Bill Evans, reviewing "Darkness in the Delta" from Big Band and Quartet Concert for DownBeat's "Blindfold Test" in 1964.
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📽 The Thelonious Monk Quartet including Thelonious Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (sax), Lawrence Gales (bass), and Ben Riley (drums) performing the tune "Round Midnight" on television. Poland, 1966.
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