[Dixielandjazz] Improvisation & Your Brain

[Bob Smith]

Dear Steve,

Many thanks for sharing the article on how the brain functions when 
improvising.

It certainly stimulated my grey cells!

I struggled for many decades to try and improvise trombone solos, without 
making much progress. Then I switched to a treble recorder and played along 
with many different jazz records, and, lo and behold, within a few weeks I 
was improvising without any conscious regard for chord sequences, or the 
tune. I recorded my efforts, and was pleasantly surprised on hearing the 
results.
Finally, I did the same thing on the trombone (muted), and again, was 
pleasantly surprised.

Kind Regards

Bob Smith