"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Answer to an E-mail
Well, some people figure that toodeling around and over a back beat - oh so often on a pentatonic skeleton - is improvising. But here's a masterful lecture about real improvisation by the man who is reported to have said, "Don't ever play a back beat to my music again."
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