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Re: david toop article - nytimes - today
Per
> > The thesis "Improvisation is generally playing what you know and what
> > you like and what you feel" is a quite personal definition that I
> > don't agree with.
accurately(if that's meant to refer to the Cage quote)
"Improvisation is generally playing what you know and what you like and
what you feel;"...Cage
to me, that looks like an observation, rather than a definition.
Actually, isn't it true that most improvisation is done within
a tradition?
some non-jazz improvisation:-
Indian Ragas
Persian Dastgah
Organ music( a strong tradition of improv upon a given theme).
Korean Sanjo ( although recently tends to be non-improv).
Javanese Gamelan( not composition, but structure)
Albanian Kaba
Turkish Clarinet music( which I think Gareth will like...probably)
and no-one mentioned King Crimson yet?too obvious i guess
andy butler
...by the way, David Toop is the absolute paragon of all that was ever bad
about music journalism.
...um...imo