The movie that we probably got the best reviews for ever was City of Hope, but they all used the word ‘grim’ in the opening line. Not that many people said, ‘Honey, let’s go see something grim tonight.’
“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