This is a nice piece, as is Matthew Shipp: Systems Within Systems from your book.
Let me add that I took your copy of New York is Now! off the shelf and it had a tab on page 21. I highlighted: "This, then is the challenge that faces the listener. To truly understand free jazz, particularly as it exists now, it is necessary to disassociate oneself from over thirty years of rhetoric. It's a difficult endeavor, because the truth is that the origin of the music, and more importantly the reason it began to exist as it did, is mysterious."
This is a nice piece, as is Matthew Shipp: Systems Within Systems from your book.
Let me add that I took your copy of New York is Now! off the shelf and it had a tab on page 21. I highlighted: "This, then is the challenge that faces the listener. To truly understand free jazz, particularly as it exists now, it is necessary to disassociate oneself from over thirty years of rhetoric. It's a difficult endeavor, because the truth is that the origin of the music, and more importantly the reason it began to exist as it did, is mysterious."