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Playing a song or an entire program is a account create a new musical language is all another matter. And 'the merit of this Kind of Blue.Chick Corea
Last night one of my students asked me to talk about improvisation. I had to stop the work we were doing and put me to tell, but above all to explain. Not knowing where to start, I took the volume of the thesis of a friend of mine in Bologna, to seek help, at least at the level of concepts.
Paradox, meeting with the wonder, beauty of imperfection. The definition of improvising reduced to five conditions: inseparability, originality, impromptu, irreversibility, responsiveness.
jazz improvisation is based on a paradox: a musician who has the stage so well prepared to allow the emotion and instinct to push the technical capabilities to explore the unknown. E '"the sound of surprise" that he seeks.
Do not be seduced by the mythology of improvisation as something totally germ, which would take place in the realm of absolute freedom, without the aid of memory, a miracle of spontaneity, as we read in many texts and dictionaries on jazz. On the contrary, improvisation is conditioned by a large body of traditional materials, from exercise and experience, therefore, Sparti how it feels, "is appropriately used - as a metaphor - the German word Einbruch , raid, as suggests a landslide or avalanche, a sudden event, yes, but prepared by long time. It 's true that the decisions "taken" in the course of improvisation are immediate, but the work that is behind these decisions has a long history - hours, days, months, even years. In this sense, improvisation is the product of the experience made by the player: to what he studied, absorbed, forgotten and rejected. "
Last night I did not go well. The boys were amazed by what I was saying. Votes wanted to compare the music to life. They asked if something similar does not happen when we find ourselves faced with a woman or in the middle of a test that is imposed on us without notice. I was reminded of a lecture given by Marchionne a few years ago, he defended the idea that life gives us time. Sometimes you have to take decisions quickly and in situations that do not allow you to put off decisions. These are events that call into question radically: we have to act confident in what we bring in talent in action. We play often bigger things, life itself.
my part, I discussed the ideas of my friend and those of Sparti, Pressing his hand on the musical concept that should have, study, exercise, memory. After all, what experience, if not all of this? The ground covered and the memory of that journey. The rest comes by itself. You may say, but how heavy that "rest"! Sure. It is to return the folds of life and the wave of the time, faces and stories, intervals and pauses ...
The beauty is afterwards.
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