[NewMusic] Peacock: A baboon's ass?

[Phillip Greenlief]

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On Behalf Of David Slusser
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Peacock: A baboon's ass?
 
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."
 

PG:
It's about surviving, I think. I don't think it has anything to do with
age. After 1970 it was almost impossible for most of those guys to make
a living. McCoy Tyner had to drive a cab to feed his family after
Coltrane died.  I'm glad he drove a cab instead of playing synth one of
Freddie Hubbard's CTI releases...

And those quotes you posted are obviously intended to quell this black
and white perspective that I mentioned in my earlier post. The jazzers
needed to hear that Ayler "could play the horn" - (duh!).  Again, this
neo-con vs. avant garde dialectic just brings out the stupidity in many
of us...Gary shouldn't feel like he needed to legitimize Ayler...