the finale will definitely not be a funeral song for free music 
but a climax of this year's konfrontationen that will raise 
our hopes for the future. barry guy, like few artists beside him, 
dis-plays in his works a wonderful, ambivalent attitude, 
mingling harmony with dissonance, and discipline with anarchy. 
and like duke ellington, barry also composes specifically 
for the individual members of his orchestra.