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• Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The…
• Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or…
• Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has.…
• Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history…
• I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
• I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
• In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now…
• But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
• Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians…
• If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
• In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
• I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind…

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