Anthony Braxton y el "jazz"

©  Carolyn Wachnicki "jazz" is the word that's used to delineate the parameters that African-Americans are allowed to function in, a "sanctioned" zone. That's what "jazz" is. "Jazz" is the name of the political system that controls and dictates African-Americans information dynamics (and also the European or trans-European information dynamics that come in that particular zone)...

But the whole thing is... I mean, it's taken for granted that a European or European-American jazzz musician has borrowed some aspects of African-American languaje: why should it be such a big thing that I've learned from Europe? I'm a human being, just like Ronnie Scott or Derek Bailey . Why is it so natural for Evan Parker , say, to have an appreciation of Coltrane , but for me to have an appreciation of Stockhausen is somehow out of the natural order of human experience? I see it as racist.   Anthony Braxton

Publicado originalmente en  Forces in Motion. The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton . Graham Lock. Da Capo Press. 1988. Citado en Blutopia. Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton . Graham Lock. Duke University Press. 1999