My bond with Fred Moten spans a nation of Black music. The music of collective improvisation mirrors the relationships in your life and your relationship to your own many-layered consciousness.
In the 1950s, he quickly developed a reputation for being a gun-toting, switchblade-carrying man on one hand and an impossibly tender soul who could write love songs with the facility of angels on the other.When I first met Fred, I went to a big party at his house after a conference he’d invited me to at Duke. I remember him flaunting his bass proudly and maybe playing it some while we read poetry in a round. Agape freedom jazz in the undercommons.
Friendships worthy of the name are improvised and always rearranging like a Monk composition, staggered into meaning “in the break” — Fred’s phrase. I hear it as drum break and heartbreak, but also big break, breakthrough. The acoustics of all the men and women from the South migrating West to break into song. Their territory shall be the universe, their recording contracts read. Sorrow song that goes down easy. When the muse dries up there or is gentrified by Hollywood, they pile in a car together and drive to New York. As their sons and daughters, we repeat this cycle like a reflex — South, then West, then Northeast.
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