jazz liner notes, part one

I'm listening to some Jimmy Giuffre. On the liner notes to his album Free Fall (whose first track is titled "Yggdrasill [The Great Ash Tree Whose Roots and Branches Hold Together the Universe])," he writes the following helpful guide to the music.

Given: this trio; a great studio on 30th Street in New York City; an engineer with radar ears and safe-cracking fingers, Fred Plaut; a producer who hears and feels the music from the vantage point of a composer, Teo Macero. Given: the urge to enter new realms, glimpse other dimensions, reach the absolute. Given: the visions from thinking on such things as... gravity, Monk, electricity, time, space, the microcosmos, leaves, chemistry, power, Gods, white-hot heat, asteroids, love, eternity, Einstein, Rollins, Evans, the heartbeat, pain, Delius, Scherchen, Art, overtones, the prehistoric, La Violette, wife, life, voids, Berg, Bird, the universe...

...We come to NOW and this album. YGGDRASILL!!!

Does anyone else think that sounds like a discarded verse from Rent?