[Dixielandjazz] Mysterious Jazz Quote

[Bob Romans]

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So who said this? And about which bebop jazz musician? Dizzy Gillespie? Charlie Parker? John Coltrane? Ornette Coleman? Stan Kenton? 
You must stop writing music which has “harmonic progressions, which the majority of people cannot fathom, [and] pieces which have pleasing melodies, but which are difficult to perform.” 

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No, it was Leopold Mozart, writing to his son, Wolfgang in August, 1778. 

--Rick Campbell