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Improvising Humor: The Comedy of Mark Twain, Richard Pryor, and Jazz

Robert O'Meally

Published: 2008-08-25

Dr. O'Meally discusses the connections between jazz and humor through an examination of figures such as Mark Twain, Richard Pryor, and Louis Armstrong.Dr. O'Meally discusses the connections between jazz and humor through an examination of figures such as Mark Twain, Richard Pryor, and Louis Armstrong.

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So one of the things that improvisation has come to mean in the context of highly technological performance is that improvisation is the last claim to the legitimate presence of a human in the performance of music.

– Bob Ostertag