"Music was destined to reach its culmination in the likeness of itself."

"It is clear that for Herbert Hunger, Byzantium was not an exotic phenomenon in the historical and political self-awar…"

"Music is become a complaisant and versatile handmaiden, and, since the impossible is demanded of her, she calls up al…"

"Doctrinaire formula-worship, that is our real enemy."

"Both the peacock and the chicken passed through [Mesopotamia] on their way westward[;] the Sumerians called the chick…"

"Even before the close of the 1940s, a reaction against the bop ethos could be heard on both the East Coast and West C…"

"Many jazz fans simply refer to [hard bop] as the Blue Note sound in deference to the recprd label most closely associ…"

"As an unintended result of the Nazi occupation [of Denmark, where Morgenstern lived at the time], jazz became more po…"

"While most first-time visitors wanted to see the Statue of Liberty (arriving by ocean liner, I'd already seen it) or …"

"Then the next thing we did, which was in 1955, Art Tatum had a trio at Storyville [in Boston, Mass]. I really wanted …"