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Q: You have said all about this subject in your book. You talk about free music. Free from what?
DB: Although it has diminished over the years there is still a somewhat anarchic element to this activity. It has now become much more regularised - in certain areas almost to the point of being staid, I think, - but there are still some anarchic characteristics to it. And one of the main ones is that, if you were to ask that question of anybody who plays this kind of music, you would get a different answer in every case. For me the answer is: it is free from ... Most of those things that I found to be accumulating as I got older as a musician. I worked as a musician for many years in what used to be called the 'band' business before I played this kind of music. As my career 'progressed' in that business I found the opportunities to pursue music in the way and for the reasons that I first started to pursue music, were diminishing, were getting less. I associate certain times working in night clubs as being quite free musically. At least, before the 60s. Even in dance halls it could be quite free, or anyway it felt free. But I found as my career ascended to what was considered to be fairly successful as a working musician - doing studio work and so on - it no longer felt as though I was doing what I thought I'd started out to do. There was more pay and less play. Then I bumped into this kind of thing and it felt somehow that I was pursuing what I had first started out to do.... This stuff is just about playing ,you see. For me it is all about this somewhat ill defined thing playing. .
You can play certain kinds of music and you really don't play at all. You are functional and you do things, but you don't play. I find a lot of jazz became like that for instance. So I find in free playing there is more playing - and this is something I have said many times, but its a useful phrase for me - there is more playing per cubic unit in free playing than there is in any other kind of music. So the freedom is just to play more. I can play more in this music than in other kinds of music.
Je sais pas si j'appellerais ça une démarche purement intellectuelle...
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Q: You have said all about this subject in your book. You talk about free music. Free from what?
DB: Although it has diminished over the years there is still a somewhat anarchic element to this activity. It has now become much more regularised - in certain areas almost to the point of being staid, I think, - but there are still some anarchic characteristics to it. And one of the main ones is that, if you were to ask that question of anybody who plays this kind of music, you would get a different answer in every case. For me the answer is: it is free from ... Most of those things that I found to be accumulating as I got older as a musician. I worked as a musician for many years in what used to be called the 'band' business before I played this kind of music. As my career 'progressed' in that business I found the opportunities to pursue music in the way and for the reasons that I first started to pursue music, were diminishing, were getting less. I associate certain times working in night clubs as being quite free musically. At least, before the 60s. Even in dance halls it could be quite free, or anyway it felt free. But I found as my career ascended to what was considered to be fairly successful as a working musician - doing studio work and so on - it no longer felt as though I was doing what I thought I'd started out to do. There was more pay and less play. Then I bumped into this kind of thing and it felt somehow that I was pursuing what I had first started out to do.... This stuff is just about playing ,you see. For me it is all about this somewhat ill defined thing playing. .
You can play certain kinds of music and you really don't play at all. You are functional and you do things, but you don't play. I find a lot of jazz became like that for instance. So I find in free playing there is more playing - and this is something I have said many times, but its a useful phrase for me - there is more playing per cubic unit in free playing than there is in any other kind of music. So the freedom is just to play more. I can play more in this music than in other kinds of music.
Je sais pas si j'appellerais ça une démarche purement intellectuelle...
