skip Heller wrote:
on 6/28/02 11:51 AM, Perfect Sound Forever at perfect-sound@furious.com wrote:
Someone like Cecil Taylor (minus the huge fanbase of course) doesn't work the same way. He's always challenged his audience and he always will. If that in itself is being repitious, so be it- that still means that whatever he releases nowadays will still be more interesting than whatever next Stones record sounds like.
If he's servicing his ongoing constituency by challenging them largely the same way every time out of the box, how can it be that he's not doing what the Stones are doing, except with a much higher degree of quality control throughout his presentation?
Hi Skip, It's not the same because he's challenging his audience DIFFERENTLY each time out though still challening them each time neverthless. If he did come out with a record that sounded like the last one, THAT in itself would be radical (though likely an unwelcome) change for him, not to mention totally against everything he's worked for. Maybe a simpler way to explain this is to say that you would expect a Cecil record to be challenging each time and it is. That is in itself is not a surprise. What is surprising is how he challenges you each time. Best, Jason -- Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine perfect-sound@furious.com http://www.perfectsoundforever.com