No sooner has the speaker asked this question -- and you see this rhythm, this dynamic, appear continually throughout Lycidas - he asks the question, and then immediately he acknowledges the inadequacy of the question.
Bassist Steve Swallow appears along with the famously dynamic drummer Barry Altschul, whose metric looseness shadows of rhythm that land on and around the pulse draws comparison to the Bley drummer who recorded the tune first, Paul Motian.