"Could Ellington and others have done this kind of work earlier if Gershwin hadn't done it? Maybe. But if they wanted to go that direction, they would have done it regardless of what Gershwin did."
"A lot of music today is on the surface. There is a same-ness, a mind-numbingly boring, clichéd repetition of chord structures that has dumbed it down to the point of destruction. "
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