“ You bring the bomb which John Coltrane ws trying to put into black music beyond European diatonic conventions, models & all that. You didn’t adjust it, but you show the world that your origins are still beautiful, still acceptable, & still useful for your music. You bring followers of Coltrane, free jazz people, & the bebop police, together [in ur singing].
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From Interview/Rehearsal 13 Jul 2009 with Abdoulaye Alhassane Touré at his apartment in Harlem USA above St. Nick’s Pub.
We are performing new arrangements of my music setting them to traditional African textures. Gig is 20 Jul 2009 at Cornelia Street Café NYC.
