[silence] Evangelisti misconception?

[Joseph Zitt]

As I recall from the LP of the event (now available in its entirety at
http://www.ubu.com/sound/cage.html ), after each did a solo piece,
they then did a simultaneous performance, with Sun Ra improvising on
keyboard as Cage did what may have been part of Empty Words Part IV.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Guy <guy@guydebievre.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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