Massimo898 - Invidious

Don't play what's there; play what is not there.

Interviewer: How far does the intellect go?

Bill Evans: Only as far as being a student, really. That's as far as it can go, because intellectually you couldn't manipulate yourself fast enough, intellectually, to play. I mean, jazz is a certain process that's not an intellectual process. You use your intellect to take apart the materials and learn to understand them and learn to work with them. But actually, it takes years and years and years of playing to develop the facility so that you can forget all of that... and just relax and just play.

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Due capolavori in uno.

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Not For Sale

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Charles Mingus Sextet 1964

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Death And The Flower

We live between birth and death
Or so we convince ourselves conveniently
When in truth we are being born and
We are dying simultaneously
Every eternal instant
Of our lives

We should try to be more
Like a flower
Which every day experiences its birth
And death
And who therefore is much more prepared
To live
The life of a flower

So think of Death as a friend and advisor
Who allows us to be born
And to bloom more radiantly
Because of our limits
On Earth

Think of this until you realise
Eternity
And cease to need
The illusion of Death

But do not do this
Before you lose the first great illusion:
The Illusion of Life

Because
To do this
You must die Many times
And live to
Know it

K.J. December 5, 1974