As a manifesto for the pleasures and power of (free) jazz, the monologue on 'Thomas Stanley Jazzcodes Outro' - the final track on Moor Mother's new LP Jazz Codes - takes some beating:
"It is a peculiar word, 'jazz'. Its illegitimate origins lost in the murky brothels where it was conceived and birthed. But many observers have told us that 'jazz' used to mean 'sex', and maybe it needs to go back to meaning 'sex', to being identified with coitus and copulation, hypercreativity, fecundity and birth. Ultimately, perhaps, it is good that the people abandoned jazz, replaced it with new musical products better suited to capitalism's designs. Now jazz jumps up like Lazarus if we allow it, to rediscover itself as a living music, a subversive Sutra of inner movement, fertility, tension and release. Released now from the prison bars of metrical stability and the black and white keys of chromatic incarceration, swing becomes a quantum oscillation of invention…"
Jazz Codes positively revels in that freedom. Here's my Buzz review of an album that will set heads spinning.
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