the sport of basketball, the comedy of Buster Keaton, the compositions of Duke Ellington--all are based on a lot of variation within a basic, fixed structure of harmony and rhythm," [Robert] Pinsky said in an e-mail interview. "Manhattan is a grid, the windows of each building are a grid, but the differences . . . are jazzy."
from The Seattle Times: Former poet laureate sees jazz everywhere in American culture
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