[Dixielandjazz] Re: Inserting lines from another song intoimprovisations.

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Charlie Hull writes:

 > Some jazz authors call it 'interpolation', and it's done all the time;
> sometimes spontaneously and often by design. My experience has been that 
> audiences, especially the non-jazz-aficionados, love it because it's 
> something they recognize - even if it's only momentary - and especially 
> when it's spontaneous. At a performance you can usually tell whether the 
> improviser inserts that phrase each time he or she solos, by whether the 
> rest of the band appears surprised and pleased.
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I call it "quoting" and I hate it.  Unless it is done very, very, very, 
rarely & with the utmost of taste, like almost never.

--Bob ringwald