threadgill-challenge

January 16, 2026

It’s not just about composition. It’s about challenging the musicians. You’ve got to have people in a position where they don’t really know, where they’re a little bit off guard, a little bit off balance, and they can really be spontaneous and extemporaneous… Familiarity makes you kind of absent from really understanding something. So you need musicians to be challenged. You don’t want them to come up and say, ‘Oh, I know what that is’ every time. You’re not going to get anything. You’re not going to get anything fresh out of them. They need to be challenged every time they come up.

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Thought:

“‘Love at first sight,’ some say, misnaming
Discovery of twinned helplessness
Against the huge tug of procreation.

But friendship at first sight? This also
Catches fiercely at the surprised heart
So that the cheek blanches and then blushes.”

Robert Graves

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