“I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.”
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If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
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