Downbeat Issue Nov 08
Paul de Barros entrevista a Tony Williams
PREGUNTA: "Should jazz get the same institutionalized treatment as classical music does in American society?"
RESPUESTA: “How much is that really going to do for musicians? I don’t think society really recognizes classical music, anyway. It’s all patronage, and grants, a certain class of people. Jazz was originally the music of
the people in the streets and not in concert halls, so when you lose that, you suffer the consequences.
There’s nothing wrong with jazz being an art form, but it has a certain roughness and vitality and unexpectedness that’s important. I guess I’m old-fashioned.”
