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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Marek Boym <marekboym@gmail.com> </span><span lang=EN-US>Call me a reactionary, but "free" music means cacophony. Full stop.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 10:11, Robert Ringwald <</span><a href="mailto:rsr@ringwald.com"><span lang=EN-US>rsr@ringwald.com</span></a><span lang=EN-US>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"MS Reference Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:navy'>I hate Free Jazz, or whatever you want to call it. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"MS Reference Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"MS Reference Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"MS Reference Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:navy'>-Bob</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"MS Reference Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>While I doubt I would put up with actually sitting & listening to “free Jazz”, I did have an experience with it in the late 1960’s, playing that is, and actually enjoyed it. To explain, I should say that what I really enjoyed was the coming back out of the free part & back to the magical, swinging, together all the band, bit! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I was working nitely with musicians way over my head as far as talent goes, but I managed keep my head above water most of the time with them. It was a mix of some (not enough!) Dixieland, standards, and some more far out stuff. Any given tune could break into a “free” section, practically without warning, and the really great part for me was getting back to the tune itself. This “rejoining” of the whole band just sort of happened, mostly driven by the drummer, and it can be a really magical moment for the musicians. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Can’t say the audience would get much out of that moment, though. And, there lies one of the secrets why our kind of Jazz can be so popular with a general public. We, most of us, anyway, play for our audiences. Once a musician starts playing “for himself”, then he can easily lose that precious connection with the audience. (*) And, that was what that “free” business felt to me….like we were playing for our own enjoyment, and to hell with the public listening. Granted, back then, we were playing midnite to 4am, 7 nites a week, so sometimes we might have an empty club at certain hours….so, why not have a bit of personal fun?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>(*) Maybe, if all goes well with an audience, a band can squeeze in a song or two in a set which is for their own particular enjoyment (or as an “Jazz Educational tool” for the audience). But, overall, a performance has to be aimed at pleasing those who paid to get in.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Jim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"MS Reference Sans Serif",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>