[Dixielandjazz] How Playing An Instrument benefits Your Brain

[Charles Suhor]

Interesting. A 1994 book, James Berliner's "THINKING IN JAZZ: The Infinite Art of Improvisation" deals with jazz and cognitive processes from a different angle, but brilliantly. I believe that jazz improv has many similarities to ordinary language production, both being generative of unique musical or linguistic "ideas" from a "deep structure," in Noam Chomsky's sense.

Charlie


On Feb 1, 2015, at 2:17 AM, Robert Ringwald wrote:

>    Sort of makes you want to give musicians a little more respect, eh?
> 
> It's only 4-1/2 minutes and worth the time.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng
> 
> -Bob Ringwald
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> I'm not saying let's go kill all the stupid people. I'm just saying
> let's remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out.
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