FW: [Dixielandjazz] Improvisation - revised

[Brian Harvey]

Please ignore the first version of this posting.....sorry......


One of the problems about improvisation seems to occur when a musician has
an over abundance of technique over what I might call 'soul' or creativity.
This leads to the objectionable exhibitions of pure technique which have no
place in jazz.
The ideal make up of a jazz musician would probably be one
who has equal measures of technique and soul/creativity.
We can analyse the "greats" using this formula and come up with interesting
results.
Louis for example would probably be 50/50 as would Charlie Parker. Wynton
Marsalis on
the other hand would probably be 70/30. And then take a pianist liker Alton
Purnell of the George Lewis-Bunk Johnson bands - he conversely would
probably be 20/80.
No doubt others will take up this thread and disagree with me - but that's
what this forum is about.
I look forward to hearing the ideas of others better qualified than I.
Brian Harvey



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