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Monday, 26 December 2005 07:32 |
#13
who knows
for phil lasley
everything i play
is different,
monk said
different melody,
different harmony,
different structure. each piece
is different
from the other one.
i have a standard,
& when the song
tells a story, when it
gets a certain
sound,
then it's through
.... completed.
& steve lacy adds, monk
told me
he never does anything
unless he wants to do it,
& he's the only man i ve ever met
who really does do
exactly what he want to
with no jive at all, just exactly
what he wants to do. & finally,
for the 3rd thing,
monk says when i
was a kid, i felt something
had to be done
about all that jazz. so
i ve been doing it
for 20 years. maybe i ve turned
jazz
another way. maybe
i m a major
influence. i don t know. anyway,
my music
is my music,
on my piano,
too. that's a criterion
of something. jazz
is my adventure. i m after new chords,
new ways of syncopating,
new figurations,
new runs. how to use notes
differently. that's it,
just how
to use notes
differently
detroit
november 10, 1985
reference: joe goldberg,
jazz masters of the 50 s
(da capo edition, 1983), pp. 24-44
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