“I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late '50s, there were a lot of experiments being made on how to avoid playing popular standards and how to get improvising out of those constricting formats.” MadeMusicNew YorkLateStandardsJazzExperimentsJazz MusicFormatImprovising Author:Paul Bley
“The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it captured the imagination of everybody. So improvising, even though it was in a very rich period in terms of impact on the public, the '6Os were very hard times on players financially.” HardTogetherTermImaginationMusicRichPlayerPeriodsImpactJazzHipsHard TimesFriendlyIntroducingElectricJazz MusicCapturedImprovisingInterpersonal Author:Paul Bley
