Notes on Sleeve Notes (Lessons to Learn and Apply to Creative Practice) #2
"In terms of the trade, this is soul music ... or rhythm and blues ... or rock. Then again, maybe it's gospel music ... or jazz. But none of these terms mean anything to the younger creative musicians of the last five or ten years. To them it's all music, and the important thing is a commitment to it as a way of life."
"Many people who have heard and liked a James Brown or an Otis Redding have balked at the playing of the New Thing as being "too far out". Only a few, perhaps, have realized that musicians such as Ayler have moved back in musical time on a quest for fundamentals."
"I suppose that those who worry about such things will call this "jazz-rock". But whatever it's called, it signals the barriers of music are down, and (to echo Martin Luther King's favourite spiritual) things are free at last."
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