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If only more singers today listened to the “Stop playing all those weird notes, play the Melody!” line!
(via lonelysandwich, via mrgan)
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anyone else want to click when the underlined words?
himself. Can you identify a genius given only their scrawlings?
advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960). See his full handprinted
So many amazing nuggets of pure genius in two pages. This is surely a complete manifesto on playing music and probably...
This was my background for a while because it’s such a wonderful fucking artifact, and reading it would genuinely perk...
Great jazz, like anything great, comes from serious self-awareness.
“What you don’t play can be more important”- Thelonius Monk to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960).