Jazz for aficionados

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? 😉

Another very good Bill Frisell recording for us to enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLGgdbMWSwE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLGgdbMWSwE

And for Frogman!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTY214-gI4

Rok, you and Frogman are making interesting conversation, but you both are totally wrong.

Do you recall an interview with Herby Hancock, where he stated how he goofed (played wrong chord or notes) and Miles came right behind him and made it all perfect; Miles thought that was what Herby intended to play. Improvisation is spontaneous, there is nothing predetermined about it.

Evidently, what you and Frogman can not comprehend, you must find other reasons for it's existence; I have seen jazz musicians perform impossible feats night after night; they're jazz musicians, that's what they do.

No matter how many people the concert pianist reached, the music was right in front of him and it may have been hundreds of years old; "external", outside of one's body; "internal", from the soul, that inner spirit that makes us alive, and different from every other human being on the planet; that's where the jazz musician is coming from.

In regard to reaching people, I'm sure the concert pianist reaches his desired audience. I may not hear anything when I look at a Beethoven piano sonata, but a concert pianist most certainly would when he looked at it; but did he create it?

Building blocks, nuts and bolts; I assume you are referring to the stuff that makes music; if so, all musicians use the same nuts and bolts, they just arrange them differently.

Bill Frizell, Thomas Morgan, "Subconscious Lee"; the music reached me, I didn't have to make any effort. I checked and was surprised it was done in 2016.


Subconscious-Lee is a jazz album by Lee Konitz although a few tracks were issued on 78rpm under Lennie Tristano's name. It was recorded in 1949 and 1950, and released on the Prestige label.

Now everything makes perfect sense; ever heard of "Jack Kerouac"? I don't know where Lee Konitz got his inspiration from, but it sounds awfully "Beat" to me, can you dig it?