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GLASS E LA MUSICA AFRO-AMERICANA

Interessante intervista a Philip Glass sul Village Voice ad opera di Steven Thrasher. Glass, che è uno dei compositori contemporanei più interessanti, svela il suo rapporto con il jazz e le sue frequentazioni all'interno della musica afro-americana.

Ecco il primo assaggio, il resto come sempre lo trovate sul link a fine post:

I wanted to ask you how you view your music in terms of the African American musical tradition?

Steven, that's an interesting question. Part of my own personal history has been my participation as a listener in other people's music. I lived in Chicago in the fifties. I went to school there, in Chicago in 1952. I heard Billie Holiday singing at the Cotton Club.

I heard Ben Webster, and I was very young. I heard Bud Powell. I couldn't hear Charlie Parker because they wouldn't let me in. I was too small. [Laughs]

But when I came to New York, one of the first people that I met was Ornette Coleman. We've known each other for years.

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