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Joseph Jarman

"Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians."

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"You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!"
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"People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time."
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"I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life."
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"We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that."
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"Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities."
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"In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May."
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"So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music."
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"The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening."
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"But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith."
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