2893559, rephrased free jazz is difficult for traditional black audiences
Posted by imcvspl, Wed Jul-23-14 06:03 PM
who are predisposed to listen to music for a subset of musical signifiers that they consider black.
groove
soul
harmonies
etc.
these may or may not be in a free jazz experience.
people will often be able to appreciate miles' freer period because he was focused on bringing the groove (some would say funk) signifiers into the free setting.
with the absence of these signifiers which often in the black modality must be repeated to drive home their blackness, makes it difficult for black audiences to embrace.
with that said there are some phenomenal black players that overtly utilize the black musical signifiers in an improvised perfromance. i think that was at the foundation of the Burnt Sugar project. Cecil Taylor, Butch Morris, Ornette Coleman, Matthew Shipp... they all at times utilize the black lexicon but often in abstracted ways which identify them as both black and other.
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