And for some reason I rather thought that black people actually captured that very well in music was this kind of loneliness in the human condition that no matter how much you yearn for community and yearn for community, in the end there is this loneliness and there's no way you can escape it. And that's to me, what the best jazz when you hear a soloist often, especially in a slow piece or a ballad piece, that's sort of what the best jazz, to me has always felt like.
-- Gerald Early, Jazz
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