Bingo!!!
You are exactly right. “Method” and “building blocks”; and in most cases a strict framework within which the player has to work. A strict and predetermined framework of form and harmony and, if the improvisation is to be good, respect for the melody of the tune in that improvisation.
Moreover, to suggest that because a concert pianist has the music written out that the music that he creates comes from a place that is “external”, not “internal” or not from the heart and that it doesn’t reach people on as deep a level as jazz is simply mistaken. This is not a matter of opinion; it may be so for a particular listener, but that is a statement about the listener and his tastes and not about the music. I would suggest to anyone who would dispute this to take a sheet of music (a Beethoven piano sonata would do just fine) and look at it long and hard. What do you hear? Anything? ...... I didn’t think so.
“Building blocks”. I like it; but doesn’t “nuts and bolts” have more charm? 😉
You are exactly right. “Method” and “building blocks”; and in most cases a strict framework within which the player has to work. A strict and predetermined framework of form and harmony and, if the improvisation is to be good, respect for the melody of the tune in that improvisation.
Moreover, to suggest that because a concert pianist has the music written out that the music that he creates comes from a place that is “external”, not “internal” or not from the heart and that it doesn’t reach people on as deep a level as jazz is simply mistaken. This is not a matter of opinion; it may be so for a particular listener, but that is a statement about the listener and his tastes and not about the music. I would suggest to anyone who would dispute this to take a sheet of music (a Beethoven piano sonata would do just fine) and look at it long and hard. What do you hear? Anything? ...... I didn’t think so.
“Building blocks”. I like it; but doesn’t “nuts and bolts” have more charm? 😉