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...MR: You see, these names we apply to things. Hip-hop is like Bebop. Fab 5 is now producing, acting. I think it all blends together, let’s not let nicknames separate us. Hip-hop has a lot to do with poetry...
...MR: Not really. My first instrument was piano. All the instruments are equal. Everyone’s improvising. everyone’s well versed, regardless of what instrument you perform on. Drummers like Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey played piano also. If you excel on a certain instrument, that’s where you position yourself. Ellington, who’s a composer, he performed on drums as well. Dizzy played all the instruments...
...MR: The drum set is a group of instruments of indeterminate pitch. So basically it has to do with the phrasing and shape of what you’re doing and the musicians you’re working with...
...MR: The audience is important for many reasons. If you don’t have an audience, you can’t make a living. I’ll put it like this. The audience wouldn’t come to see any of the improvisational people, commonly called [laughs] “Jazz” musicians, if they weren’t communicating. It’s a world of sound that you make people understand. We all are instantly composing, and in order to do that, you have to be well-versed in all of the elements that...
...MR: I’m just trying to describe what I see and experience in my lifetime being a person of color. That’s in all my work, because it’s not easy to live in this country that we do being a person of color. When you find yourself being lynched because of color, it’s some barbaric stuff. Know what I mean...