.i'm pretty sure that someone like Mozart, composed, in total silence, didn't hum out a tune, given that he had to micromanage symphony, or rather, the latter stage of polyphony - synchronization of all subsequent parts... whereby music was more optical in its genesis than people might like to believe... of course auditory in its exodus from the godhead, but... i'm pretty sure the composition process for classical music, would never amount to the sort of fun impromptu of jazz... must be a black privilege sort of, "thing" to have found jazz lying around...
how did the beatniks even believe that a cross-generational mongrel of an art form, fusing poetry with jazz could ever work? robert pinsky still has the dream - but it's a bit like: you think you can smoke marijuana and listen to blues? not drink a drop of the devil liquor and take blues seriously? just like sonny clark would have said: 'if you don't shoot it, you don't smoke it'... given that... this is not stoner rock type of wasp hive droning, humming, heavily repeated rhythm... nothing wacky like thievery corporation doing a live rendition of the forgotten people live on KEXP... what's that phrase? i feel monged - i.e. so ****** that you don't know if it's a brain or a jelly, a stomach or krāng... an 8th of an ounce could last me a week... never mind... but how could they even suppose that, somehow... jazz would dissolve into acid jazz... that ****** variant you don't hear in a jazz club... sure... the one up in Edinburgh was jazz by name only... instead? one night i heard the cover of neil young's song old man... yeah... very ******* jazzy... what's next, a banjo quartet? first jazz song i ever heard was art blakey & the jazz messangers' opening track from the album of the same name - moanin'... SOLD... had to stash on some of the records... but did i really want to speak over the music? did i want to contaminate the music and produce some ****** mash-up akin to the beatnik experiment? *******... high on dope... never bothered to call jazz... the black man's equivalent status of what white man's classical music is... and where's jazz now? joshua redman isn't exactly a lifejacket when a boat with 20 is sinking... jazz has been neglected... relegated as posh black boy music heading off to Yale... wap... or wrap it up... talk with a mouth but forget playing the ******* horns, the sax... can't exactly see a revival... but would i really want to speak to this music? feels a bit like talking over an opera... made sense back then, makes little or no sense now... beside the point... there's still a heatwave in england... every morning i wake up in a furnace - or as if attired in a metallurgy suit working raw metals... and i always ask myself the question... to rehydrate... would i rather eat half a watermelon, or drink a big glass of water? it's always the first.