Dienstag, Februar 23, 2010

Astral Travelling

On Thembi, that was the first time that I ever touched a Fender Rhodes electric piano. We got to the studio in California — Cecil McBee had to unpack his bass, the drummer had to set up his drums, Pharoah had to unpack all of his horns. Everybody had something to do, but the piano was just sitting there waiting. I saw this instrument sitting in the corner and I asked the engineer, "What is that?"
He said, "That’s a Fender Rhodes electric piano."
I didn’t have anything to do, so I started messing with it, checking some of the buttons to see what I could do with different sounds. All of a sudden I started writing a song and everybody ran over and said, "What is that?" And I said, "I don’t know, I’m just messing around." Pharoah said, "Man, we gotta record that. Whatcha gonna call it?"
I’d been studying astral projections and it sounded like we were floating through space so I said let’s call it "Astral Traveling."
(From Wikipedia.org (>>))

That's Jazz in a nutshell. That's the way you should treat the new in the world and its possibilities - curious and curageously. And the result will invariably beggar all description, in a positive way. So listen to it. Here, for example (>>).

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