Burris Spotting Scope

steps in fifteen seconds

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Met the street in Rome in 1968, Lacy was asked by a friend (with recorder in hand) to describe in fifteen seconds the difference between music composed and improvised music. "In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that when you compose all the time you want to decide what to say in those fifteen seconds, when suddenly you have only fifteen seconds" (even the wording of the response took exactly fifteen seconds).

(D. Sparti, Sounds unheard. Improvisation in jazz and in everyday life ,
Il Mulino, 2005, pp. 119-120)

In video: Ornette Coleman Quintet Chronology, from "The Shape of Jazz to Come" (1959)