anyone hear the jazz library on sun ra yesterday

there were some gems of music in there
the one they didnt play sounded most interesting
[shame they always cut the most interesting stuff
guess it's the format- soundbite culture-3minute songs work best]
i know they've gotta tell the story but
it makes the musical represention lopsided

anyways
goddam brian morton is up there again
deciding what sun ra really meant
when he stated he was from saturn
mr morton doesnt mind for a minute discounting
the philosophy and ethos these musicians have carried
avowedly through their lives
it seems to be something of an appropriation
when he says he owns over 100 cds but doesnt seem to care much
for what sun ra stated as his truth

and then at one point
he said he thought it was a pity that the aacm
tended to overlay the political thing onto the music
and it didnt work

i'm sure george e lewis and most of the guys in the aacm would argue with this
but hey
they should listen to mr morton's version of thier own lives and just shut up

sorry i dont have the exact quote

i'll rewind my tape and we'll put it up on the net that's the idea

i think it not only doesnt hamper the music
it possibly created the music

some of these guys felt lucky to be alive
and/or free in the vile land  genocide creation usa

many of them were not only barely allowed to exist
as human beings but they were barred ffrom making music
that they wanted to make

see george e lewis
a power greater than itself

see/hear jarman and mitchell and them all
screaming at you from the grooves of the black vinyl

brian morton#s favourite phrase seems to be
'you're aboslutely right'
as if he is the one who'd know

ahem