“Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.” IdeasMatterCultureSacredMusicalDecadesExistentialismExistentialThreatenedInnovative Author:Archie Shepp
“So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.” IdeasYoungGuyChanceLike MeRebelPartnershipTake A ChanceYoung Guys Author:Archie Shepp
