All The Tenets That I Had Grown

So, Rap Has That Quality, For Youth Anyway; It's A Kind Of Blues Element. It's Physical, Almost Gymnastic. It Speaks To You Organically. Rap Grows Out Of What Young People Really Are Today, Not Only Black Youth, But White - Everybody.

In America, For A Brief Time, People Who Followed John Coltrane Were Studied And Considered Important, But It Didn't Last Long. The Result Is That The Kind Of Music I Played In The '60's Is Completely Dismissed In This Country As A Wrong Turn, A Suicidal Effort.

Black Music Has Become A Commercial Commodity. Live Performances Are Not So Accessible As They Were Previously. It Use To Be Possible To Go To The Bar On The Corner And Hear Music. It Was Available For A Fifteen Cent Beer.

You Get A Show Where People Are Jumping Up And Dancing, But It's Not A Critical Event In The Sense Of Profound Catharsis. Essentially It's Celebratory.

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.