“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
“And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.” IdentityMetsWindowTransformationMusicalThrown Author:Archie Shepp
