"At the first jazz concert I attended - the Thelonious Monk Quartet - I felt baffled, then dismayed, by the audiences need to add a full stop to each solo by applauding when it seemed to be over, irrespective of merit or the flow of the music. By the mid 1960s, the perpetually fragile relationship between audience and performers had succumbed, in certain forms of jazz at least, to a sequence of stereotypical gestures."
(David Toop*: Ocean of Sound. p.99 Serpaint's Tail, 1995)

*siehe Perfect Sound Forever D. Toop Interview