http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/02/27/jazz-musicians-lose-control/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/02/27/jazz-musicians-lose-control/#comment-965 zimk Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:56:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/02/27/jazz-musicians-lose-control/#comment-965 I believe this is a very limited explanaton about the mental process(es) at work during improvisation. Jazz musicians are trained to think fast. Analize all the John Coltrane chorus on "Giant Steps" (an extremely difficult tune to improvise on, played at very fast tempo) and you can notice that he thinks about what he is doing. I think that a musician playing a keyboard inside a fmri machine is not a very good example of what "playing jazz" is all about, don't you think? I believe this is a very limited explanaton about the mental process(es) at work during improvisation.
Jazz musicians are trained to think fast. Analize all the John Coltrane chorus on “Giant Steps” (an extremely difficult tune to improvise on, played at very fast tempo) and you can notice that he thinks about what he is doing.
I think that a musician playing a keyboard inside a fmri machine is not a very good example of what “playing jazz” is all about, don’t you think?

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/02/27/jazz-musicians-lose-control/#comment-964 jason Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:43:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/02/27/jazz-musicians-lose-control/#comment-964 "Perhaps that’s what’s keeping the rest of us robots out of Carnegie Hall—we just think too much" maybe they're just better than you. “Perhaps that’s what’s keeping the rest of us robots out of Carnegie Hall—we just think too much”
maybe they’re just better than you.

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