Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those...Quote by Evan Parker about people
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction. Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.Quote by Evan Parker about people
Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.Quote by Evan Parker about people
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.Quote by Evan Parker about people