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Re: George Lewis Pdf
The long passage from Steve Lacie is my
favorite. "Jazz got to so that it wasn't improvised anymore. A lot of
music that was going on was really not improvised. It got so that everybody knew
what was going to happen and, sure enough, that's what happened. Maybe the order
of the phrases and tunes would be a little different every night, but for me
that wasn't enough. It reached a point where I, and many other people, got sick
and tired of the 'beat' and the '4 bars' - everybody got tired of the systematic
playing, and we just said 'Fuck it'."...some people are interested in carrying
on an old tradition and they can find their kicks in shifting round patterns and
they are not in any rush to find new stuff. They can rummage around the old
stuff their whole lives. People become obsessed with not just maintaining a
tradition but with perfecting it...[cut] "And you have to keep it going
otherwise you lose that freedom. And then the music is finished. It's a matter
of life and death. The only criterion is - 'Is this stuff alive or
dead?'".
I really like that quote--it sounds like a good read!
Charlie
