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Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

Duke Ellington
Thoughtful, Past, Matter
Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.326, Oxford Paperbacks
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.