"I am sure that if the negroes I met in South Africa were to hear the works of our modern jazz composers they would shiver in their black skins, would feel pained at this degeneration of their art. I cannot conceive a worse instrument than a modern saxophone; tho sound of such an instrument is revolting, and to say that modern generations are enraptured with it is, to my mind, an insult to modern, mentality. I believe that jazz, in all its, different forms of development, should be stopped—the Governments of the world should stop it, in the same way that they are stopping opium smoking and cocaine! For this music is to the spirit what opium and cocaine arc to the body. I am an apostle of a return to the old plain, melodious music which nourishes our brains and sets our hearts at rest."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 2
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146Untitled Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 2
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