“Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.” CultureJazzExistential Author:Archie Shepp
“The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.” Has BeensPurposeReligionSongCultureGoalCasesRightsMagicGroupsJazzBackgroundsCivil RightsRevolutionaryReplacedVoodoo Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.” HumansLongFormCultureVoiceSilenceHeardOceanBlueMedicineJazzEdgesApolloWhalesDolphinsHuntedHuman VoiceDelphi Author:Jay Griffiths
“The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that its the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.” FirstsArtImportantFactsFormCultureConditionsParticularFirst TimePerformancesImportant ThingsJazzDedicatedAmerican CultureExhibitsLincoln Center Author:Rafael Vinoly