... But in the words of Duke Ellington, to take it as far back as way back goes; the avant-garde is the most ancient thing.
It’s the first shocking, expressive behaviour that was ever unleashed in the tribe or the world or the community, whatever it was. That started it…
When I was coming up with Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Carla Bley, Steve Lacy and so forth in the sixties, while the revolution was fermenting, we were labeled avant-garde by a lot of critics. But we were also labeled 'shit, fuck, piss, noise, hate, bullshit, nonsense, yucky, poo, doo-doo…' and everything else bad you could say about anything ...
Roswell Rudd (b.1935), in Larry Fink’s Somewhere there's music
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