A Whole Generation Of Young

Yes, The Audience Is So Important To Negro Music, Especially The Element Of Call And Response.

And When I Met Cecil Taylor It Was A Complete Transformation Of Musical Identities. All The Tenets That I Had Grown Up With Were Thrown Out The Window.

So, I Was Just A Young Guy, Maybe With An Idea, And Cecil Taylor, Himself A Rebel, Would Take A Chance On A Guy Like Me. It Turned Out To Be A Very Symbiotic Partnership. I Learned A Lot From Him.

You Get A Show Where People Are Jumping Up And Dancing, But It's Not A Critical Event In The Sense Of Profound Catharsis. Essentially It's Celebratory.

So, Rap Has That Quality, For Youth Anyway; It's A Kind Of Blues Element. It's Physical, Almost Gymnastic. It Speaks To You Organically. Rap Grows Out Of What Young People Really Are Today, Not Only Black Youth, But White - Everybody.