[NewMusic] Peacock: A baboon's ass?

[George Cremaschi]

PG wrote:

>I'm not sure Peacock of all people can be held "responsible"
>for the group sound.

Why, because he's a bass player? Typical saxophonist attitude...
no wonder Peacock walks out on concerts - he's just the bass
player. That's why I gave up on jazz - it's all about keeping
your mouth shut and doing your little Charlie Haden (or Scott
LaFaro) imitation.
Seriously, though, I didn't say Peacock was responsible for the
group sound, only his part.


>He never would have played that way had it not been for Albert out front 
>leading the pack as only he could.

Anthony Williams' "Spring" debunks that myth. That's just
how he was playing in that time period, with or without
Ayler. Then he found Zen and ECM records. Sure, some
of that 70's music is nice to cook tofu by, but it just doesn't
excite me that much. Anyway, I said "forty-year slide", which
implies that whatever happened in the late 60's and 70's
was still pretty good.

Later, like so many 'outside' players of his generation, he
seemed almost desperate to prove his worth from an 'inside'
perspective. Revolution is for the young, apparently. But at
least he doesn't disown the music he made with Ayler, though
not without the typical qualifiers:
"So when he played it wasn't just squawks and beeps and honks
and that kind of thing. He was really, he was coming from a real place.
It was authentic. It was really him....Albert Ayler could play changes."

-George

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