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The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the

The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons. – Imamu Amiri Baraka Jones

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