The best jazz singers use their voices much as horn players use their instruments  The great Billie Holiday thought of her singing voice as a horn, reshaping melody and words to increase their impact  Conversely, jazz horn players achieve their distinctive sounds by emulating the spontaneous twists and turns of an impassioned voice
So jazz consists largely of voicelike horns and hornlike voices
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