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quiet storm, pseudo-jazz, the kind of drek you hear in supermarkets, the whiny school of sax playing pioneered by hacks on the order of kenny g--all this is a cartoon jazz, a joke. the superficial features of jazz reduced to wallpaper. a kind of death mask. it has no relation to what the music was, is, can be.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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