As anyone who has taken part in a strike or a demonstration will know, reports of events that challenge the established order can be distorted by the next morning, never mind 200 years later. And, as is the case with plenty of those modern events, once you remove the prejudice that anyone involved was fundamentally rotten, an entirely different picture emerges.
“Improvisation is really the deepest way to deal with moment-by-moment reality in music. There is no deeper way, personally deeper. But there is no less depth in working with someone else’s music — having found his depth becomes exactly the same. And the people who think the two things are different are going to lose out when they come to listen to one or the other.”
Keith Jarrett
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