The album was received quite well from progressive music and out rock audiences.
Thursday's concert illustrated that rock audiences are loyal to bands, not to festivals.
MIA became popular with progressive rock audiences in the late 1970s.
No question: they're one of the best new jazz groups who know a rock audience is waiting for them.
But jazz musicians found them unsatisfying, and the rock audience moved on anyway.
It's an opportunity to turn traditional rock audiences and other people onto this stuff.
The band was at the height of popularity, especially among rock audiences, during 1965-1966 with both cover and original songs.
Yet since the mid-1970's, he has been saying things the rock audience supposedly doesn't want to hear in its quest for escapist fun.
It's an interesting problem, this issue of how to police a rock audience.
These new sounds had the advantage of bringing the rock audience closer to jazz.