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Quote by Roscoe Mitchell

“I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.”

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Roscoe Mitchell, born on August 3, 1940, is an outstanding American composer. His musical style is unique, blending elements of jazz, classical, and electronic music, which has had a profound impact on the contemporary music world. more

“At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.”

Ifs Needs Littles Bigs Seems Band Glory Instruments Jazz Rhythm Eras Tunes Hops Halls Preservation Sections New Orleans Horns Vintage Carnegie Carnegie Hall Rhythm And Blues Jazz Band

Author:Jon Pareles

“Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.’s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockers’ multiple-guitar attack, with distortion and feedback, gives the music teeth.”

Ifs Knows Giving Stills Sound Guitar Holes Teeth Melody Aggression Multiple Feedback Potatoes Distortion Rockers Pithy

Author:Jon Pareles

“Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.”

Play Challenges Jazz Hearing Active Piano Solo Pianist Volcanoes Monitoring Free Jazz

Author:Jon Pareles

“We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.”

Earth Praise Grass Clothings Oaks Slender Girth

Book:Songs of Doubt and Dream (poems)

Source: Songs of Doubt and Dream (poems)

“At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?”

Moments Choices Voice Glad Sunset Scrap

Book:Fantasy and Passion

Source: Fantasy and Passion

“Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.”

Heart Liver Jaundice

Book:Medicine

Source: Medicine

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