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Kraftwerk - Computer World

A few more years and Rock and Roll will no doubt be washed back half forgotten into the sea of jazz. Jazz is a great big sea. It washes up all kinds of fish and shells and spume and waves with a steady old beat, or off beat. And Louis must be getting old if he thinks J. J. and Kai, and even Elvis, didn’t come out of the same sea he came out of, too. Some water has chlorine in it and some doesn’t. There’re all kinds of water. There’s salt water and Saratoga water and Vichy water, Quinine water and Pluto water, and Newport rain. And it’s all water. Throw it all in the sea, and the sea’ll keep on rolling along toward shore and crashing and booming back into itself again. The sun pulls the moon. The moon pulls the sea. They also pull jazz and me. Beyond Kai to Count to Lonnie to Texas Red, beyond June to Sarah to Billy to Bessie to Ma Rainey. And the Most is the It, the all of it.

Now, to wind it all up, with you in the middle, jazz is only what you yourself get out of it. Louis’s famous quote, or misquote probably­, Lady, if you have to ask what it is, you’ll never know. Well, I wouldn’t be so positive. The lady just might know, without being able to let loose the cry, to follow through, to light up before the fuse blows out. To me jazz is a montage of a dream deferred. A great big dream, yet to come, and always yet, to become ultimately and finally true. Maybe in the next seminar, for Saturday, Nat Hentoff and Billy Strayhorn and Tony Scott and the others on that panel will tell us about it, when they take up The Future of Jazz. The Bird was looking for that future like mad... That future is what you call pregnant. Potential papas and mamas of tomor­row’s jazz are all known. But THE papa and THE mama, maybe both, are anonymous. But the child will communicate. Jazz is a heartbeat, ­its heartbeat is yours. You will tell me about its perspectives when you get ready.


Kraftwerk - Computer World
  • Composed by: Ralf Hütter
  • Release in: 1981
  • Genre: Electronic

"Kraftwerk is an electronic band founded in 1970 in Düsseldorf, Germany. They pioneered electronic music in the 70s and are considered the most important and influential band of their genre."

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