Zorn su improvvisazione e Bay Area Connection
“Don’t ask questions. Just listen” – non è stato facile per Lee Hildebrand intervistare Zorn in vista delle sue performances a San Francisco (John Zorn: Bay Area Connection: 8 and 10 p.m. today-Sat. $25-$35. Yoshi’s, 1330 Fillmore St., S.F. (415) 655-5600. www.yoshis.com).
Zorn reagisce in modo scontroso e sarcastico (e un po’ snob) alle domande del giornalista sull’improvvisazione. E tutta via sono presenti alcuni spunti di riflessione.
“If it’s totally improvised, then it’s not my music anymore, is it?” he says with a laugh. “My solo music – I get up onstage, I improvise and it’s my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we’re improvising together. Then it’s not my music; it’s our music. I don’t like to ever say the word ‘my music.’ … Nothing is mine. We’re working on this together.
“No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you’ve got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds. If you can play on the ride cymbal a certain way, then you’ve got to take a nod to Max Roach or Tony (Williams). It’s like, hey, we’re just adding to a legacy. This is an energy that we are part of, you know. So how much of my music is totally improvised?
“There’s a certain amount of naivete in that question,” he adds.
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