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IV.
“I thought about doing an Ellington thing I recently heard on one of those fantastic records. But I’ve learned something about the process of art - and this is why Donald Byrd is so full of shit, and the others who take Stevie Wonder’s songs and readapt them. You know, if you love someone, you learn things about that person, but you don’t become them.”
-Cecil Taylor

Destination: Out! is on goddamn point. Not that they were ever fallin’ off or nothing, but still.