[silence] Evangelisti misconception?

[Guy]

Zac Bond wrote:
> "Imaginary Landscape No. 5" from 1952 was originally realized using jazz
> records in an effort to appreciate the style by using it in a new
> context.  Later, in 1986 he performed with Sun Ra, so I suspect Cage's
> attitude toward jazz varied throughout his life.
>   
they appeared together for some event, but did not perform together, 
they each did their thing. As far as misconceptions go I find it 
dangerous to talk about "jazz" and then mention Tommy Dorsey and Sun Ra 
as if they were practicing the same kind of music (same way we could 
mention Mozart and Cage in one breath). Cage did indeed have no 
particular liking for jazz, but his main criticism was against 
"pretended freedom", the same criticism he had toward "free 
improvisation", it never being free of the intentions of the performers. 
But I find that somehow a pointless discussion, as free improvisers to 
my knowledge never claimed to be free of intentions, but rather to be 
free of prior agreements, with each other and with musical history, 
although in the end free improvisation became a genre, with its own 
style figures and mannerisms.

Guy