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Musician
American Musician
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You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.
We're really trying to develop music that can help stimulate intellectual thought.
We try to incorporate any sounds into the music. Sounds of life. Sounds of everyday, and incorporate that as part of the music.
And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.
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You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.
You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.
You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.
What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.
What happens is these records are taken from the artist.
Well the Art Ensemble is exactly what it says; we're the Art Ensemble.
