[jazz is the] brotherhood of those who, devoid of harmonic and even of melodic instinct, love to fairly wallow in noise. [it is a] manifestation of a low streak in man's tastes that has not yet come out in civilization's wash.
Calvin Trillin
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"In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the
events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that
it may n...
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