Comments on: Live Together, Die Alone: The Value of Free-Improvisation http://rvanews.com/etc/live-together-die-alone-the-value-of-free-improvisation/8319 Sometimes, I get a good feeling. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:14:01 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Recommended reading: Week 53 | RVANews http://rvanews.com/etc/live-together-die-alone-the-value-of-free-improvisation/8319#comment-11912 Recommended reading: Week 53 | RVANews Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:04:07 +0000 http://rvanews.com/?p=8319#comment-11912 [...] –Taylor Barnett wrote a great essay about free improvisation at RVANews. He cites his experience in Devil’s Workshop Big Band, and a great clip accompanies the essay. Referring to the opening of every set at Bogart’s Back Room, he says, “The ‘Free Tune’ was like a trust exercise, but instead of falling backwards into each other’s arms, we jumped into the musical abyss, having faith that we would either remember how to fly, or be caught by someone else who had.” Live Together, Die Alone: The Value of Free-Improvisatio [...] [...] –Taylor Barnett wrote a great essay about free improvisation at RVANews. He cites his experience in Devil’s Workshop Big Band, and a great clip accompanies the essay. Referring to the opening of every set at Bogart’s Back Room, he says, “The ‘Free Tune’ was like a trust exercise, but instead of falling backwards into each other’s arms, we jumped into the musical abyss, having faith that we would either remember how to fly, or be caught by someone else who had.” Live Together, Die Alone: The Value of Free-Improvisatio [...]

]]> By: Nathan http://rvanews.com/etc/live-together-die-alone-the-value-of-free-improvisation/8319#comment-6478 Nathan Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:53:12 +0000 http://rvanews.com/?p=8319#comment-6478 Taylor, your essay is the most orderly explication of the improvisation/composition dichotomy that I've ever come across. Well done. I'm not at all a trained jazz musician but I can appreciate that tension as well; and I really like your implicit suggestion about practicing as a group with entirely "free" material. Thanks! With DWBB, how did the "free tune" typically start? Did it generally fall to one or more members of the group to begin the process? I would think that getting started would be the hardest part. Thanks again, Nathan Taylor, your essay is the most orderly explication of the improvisation/composition dichotomy that I’ve ever come across. Well done. I’m not at all a trained jazz musician but I can appreciate that tension as well; and I really like your implicit suggestion about practicing as a group with entirely “free” material. Thanks!

With DWBB, how did the “free tune” typically start? Did it generally fall to one or more members of the group to begin the process? I would think that getting started would be the hardest part.

Thanks again,

Nathan

]]> By: lindsey http://rvanews.com/etc/live-together-die-alone-the-value-of-free-improvisation/8319#comment-6119 lindsey Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:04:51 +0000 http://rvanews.com/?p=8319#comment-6119 that was a good read. thanks for the insight. that was a good read. thanks for the insight.

]]> By: RVAjazz: Recommended reading: Week 53 http://rvanews.com/etc/live-together-die-alone-the-value-of-free-improvisation/8319#comment-6090 RVAjazz: Recommended reading: Week 53 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:26:53 +0000 http://rvanews.com/?p=8319#comment-6090 [...] --Taylor Barnett wrote a great essay about free improvisation at RVANews. He cites his experience in Devil's Workshop Big Band, and a great clip accompanies the essay. [...] [...] –Taylor Barnett wrote a great essay about free improvisation at RVANews. He cites his experience in Devil’s Workshop Big Band, and a great clip accompanies the essay. [...]

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