So, I Was Just A Young Guy,

I Can't See Any Separation Between My Music And My Life. I Play Pretty Much Race Music: Its About What Happened To My Father, To Me, And What Can Happen To My Kids.

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.

It Was A Particularly Interesting And Exciting Time, And The European Political And Artistic Establishment Was Turned On By The Civil Rights Movement And The Artistic Revolution That Was Becoming A Part Of Jazz.

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.

I Find That Here In The States, Audiences Are Generally Less Knowledgeable, From The Cognitive Point Of View, Though They Are Emotionally More Receptive.