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In an interview with Fred Jung for the All About Jazz website, Shipp, the curator and producer of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series and collaborator on the label's three Spring Heel Jack albums, says: "The only way to move forward is to piss people off. You piss people off because of their preconceptions and their preconceptions keep an idea stagnant. There is no other way to move forward than to piss people off." The only thing that I could see pissing a reasonable person off about Spring Heel Jack Live is the preponderance of albums out there that aren't nearly this good, but then there are plenty of unreasonable people...It is difficult to relate an adequate representation of the music on the Spring Heel Jack Live album. Each minute contains such a great deal of creation and, largely because the improvisation is not based on any theme and the ensemble is leaderless, often these improvisations are moving in numerous directions at once. At times it attains the collective fervor of Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz, Evan Parker carries Coltrane's essence deep into the free realm, Shipp on Fender Rhodes is reminiscent of Miles' early fusion recordings...
