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Albert Murray

American Critic

Born: May 12, 1916

Died: Aug 18, 2013

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The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. Albert Murray

People Creation Blues Product Forward-Looking

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. Albert Murray

Nature Progress Jazz Musicianship Must Composer Be Prepared Written Simply Performer Execute Truly Score Contribute Expected Improvisational Orchestration Who Rehearsed Prepared Function Competent

The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated. Albert Murray

Survival Dance Embrace More Joint Also Always Context Been Ballroom Represent Human Which Ceremonial Speaking Human Species Species Thing

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