At the time, he wrote in a notebook that he was interested in "liquefying a 'raw material' where concert music and popular song can crisscross".
Though he tends to favour more workmanlike material in concert these days, this remains the transcendent high point of Morrison's recent live appearances.
Artists have often seized the chance to upgrade and update their old material in concert, but now they can – in theory – do it on record too.
Now 67, Dickson works as a photographer, surrounded by his own sizeable collection of material – records, concert posters, books, night-club handbills – from jazz's post-war era, with Macdonald's majestically resonant work as its centrepiece.
He tried to kickstart his muse: by forming a heavy rock band, Tin Machine; by announcing that he would no longer play old material in concert; by reconnecting with collaborators who'd spurred him on in the past, including Brian Eno and Mick Ronson; by dabbling in the voguish dance genre of drum'n'bass.
I see other ways I can present the material in concert, more challenging, something new.
His band positively smokes on stage, and that certainly helps, but anybody who's frontloading new material in concert after damn near five decades, while totally deconstructing their big hits of the past, is artistically vital by any definition.
Her fans have been patient in their wait for new material and concerts.
He performed it with the pianist Vijay Iyer, his partner in the duo Raw Materials; the concert, part of the JVC Jazz Festival, was in the small, beautiful theater of the Rubin, in the Flatiron district.
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