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Writes Jazz Historian Barry Ulanov: "The kind of jazz that seems to be growing up around us, less and less fitfully, more and more artfully, demands a hearing. It will out . . . It will be played with such conviction that its progress will become unmistakable . . . It will make its way, as all enrichments of human culture have in the past."
One of these days, restless Dave Brubeck thinks he may go back to his original ambition of being a composer. In the meantime, he is finding that his improvised kind of music is just as real as the "composed" kind. Says he: "I can go out and play and not give a damn whether I am a composer or not. I have yet to find the composer who I think is happy. Composers have all year to think about the next note. We have to decide in a second. But they are not played very much, while in jazz you can perform what you compose. When I get inspired, I'm the happiest guy in the world."
*An intellectual jazzman with an experimental or complex swinging beat. For glossary of other modern jazz terms, see p. 66. *A drug whose effects include Technicolor illusions and a relaxed sense of time, enthusiastically described by Author Aldous Huxley in his book, The Doors of Perception.