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The LAQT

by Larry Williams

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1.
Gotta Get Out 15:08
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2.
Because I Said So 03:58
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3.
In Your Absence 09:23
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4.
Seven 04:50
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5.
20 Seconds Of Insane Courage 02:30
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6.
On Second Thought 04:10
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7.
Walk Like A New Yorker 10:46
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8.
I Say Again 04:08
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about

What if I were to tell you that true improvisation could start with a blank canvas? Not a re-worked version of a
standard or anything with a set form or progression? that it doesn't have to swing or have evolved from some
established historic origin? Maybe no groove is established at all? or even a recognizable melody? That the players
weren't necessarily from a Jazz or blues background?
Hopefully these questions would pique your interest in what could possibly remain without said elements providing
the foundation.This is not to say that a modicum of understanding or experience in any of those aforementioned
factors is not present in each player's contributions. Individual backgrounds are always vital to the process.
A performance of this kind is based more on the exception rather than the rule.
A melding of minds.
Contrary to popular belief, this process is not a search for "it".
"It" is not some elusive thing that everyone is looking under rocks or blasting off out into the universe to find,
these are merely resources. In any group one must look no further than those involved in the music making of the
moment. Then you are on the same mission, to invent, to realize.
The music is the rule.

It has been said that Jazz and improvisation is a form of "spontaneous composition" but I ask you, how can it truly
be so if you are starting off with an already composed form with chord changes and melody in place before you even
arrive at the improvisation or so called spontaneous composition?
To appreciate music of a wholly spontaneous compositional nature one needs only an open mind. One as open as
the music itself, maybe more so.
The LAQT starts from this blank canvas each time. They are not "blowing changes" or solos to the jazz standard, in fact
most times there are no solos per se, unless you consider the quartet itself being the soloist.
It is band improvisation, each player listening to the other and projecting a bigger picture, one much larger than the
individual,

the sum of all parts.

©2006 all rights reserved

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released September 1, 2006

All tracks composed in real time via improvisation by The LAQT as they were performed live.
Larry Williams | trumpet&effects, percussion
Jeff Miley | guitar, loops & effects
Derek Frank | electric bass
Frank Briggs | drums

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Larry Williams Orlando, Florida

After all I've done in life and places I've been, mistakes I've made and dues I've paid...
I'm still happy to be me.

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