“It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and change their consciousness. He wanted to reach the "working classes" in England. The kind of music he was making was very much from the academy, even though it had a lot in common with things like free jazz and improvisation, and he felt that it was the music of the elite, and that he wasn't really speaking to the people.” PeopleKindInterestingCommonConsciousnessJazzAcademicWorking ClassVery InterestingImprovisation Author:Alasdair MacLean
“I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records and play them for me. So it was in my early teens that I started to listen to jazz.” SchoolTeacherLuckyJazzGreat Music Author:Alasdair MacLean
