- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
- Nov 07, 2020
Today, music is visual.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020