Rap Actually Took Root In The Negro

Yes, The Audience Is So Important To Negro Music, Especially The Element Of Call And Response.

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.

A Whole Generation Of Young Whites Have Involved Themselves With Traditional Negro Music.

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.

And When I Met Cecil Taylor It Was A Complete Transformation Of Musical Identities. All The Tenets That I Had Grown Up With Were Thrown Out The Window.