The Birth of YNQ

Lyrics

[Denny Zeitlin] And Anthony was into this other music And it just really spoke to me And I started hearing musicians like Bud Powell and, uh Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie And Miles Davis, and boy, that was it And, uh, and I would recommend That if somebody's really serious about music, to study But I was hungrier and hungrier to get into some new sounds And uh, the first electronic instrument Keyboard instrument I ran across Got a lot of electronic pianos around The one I particularly like is the Fender Roads electric piano [Denny Zeitlin] Then there's the electric clavinet It's really like an electric clavichord And it has strings And it has little rubber hammers That hit the string when you press the key down Like this [Denny Zeitlin] I think that's sort of the most guitar like The clavinet sound, when it has that wah-wah thing going Then there's other kinds of things you can do To a signal source to alter the sounds Then I got into the wah-wah peddles Here's how the wah-wah sounds on the clavinet The last keyboard instrument that I got into Is not truly a keyboard instrument It's a small synthesizer There's a whole universe of sounds with this And this is not representative It's just one of a trillion sounds you could get [Denny Zeitlin] And off from ground zero With no preconceived ideas of what we're going to play Either rhythmically, or melodically, or harmonically We don't know what's going to emerge from moment to moment And there's no real leader, uh, of this kind of music The focus shifts sometimes The music is coming right from the center of the room Somehow through us And we're just the vehicles for it It can go any direction Where we begin from some point And emerge out of that explosion Into some kind of walking jazz time That's something that we like to do Okay? Excellent