John Malveaux: The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance

John Malveaux of  

www.MusicUNTOLD.com  

writes:

The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.   

Andre Previn

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