[NewMusic] Peacock: A baboon's ass?

[David Slusser]

George, are you writing from this country, or overseas?

Typical saxophonist attitude, but you sound full of vinegar,
and I'm ready to square off against your ass with our
instruments if I catch you around here.

Hopefully, I'd like to be around when you're 70, and hear
what you have to say (and play).

On Aug 2, 2007, at 3:21 AM, George Cremaschi wrote:
> 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."