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Latin Jazz Guitarist
The gift of improvization
There is no doubt that music is a gift and a gift to share as it is the one thing that crosses cultures and most people enjoy. Learning to play an instrument requires discipline and the mastery of technique, however unconventional, in order to play. But playing and reaching the heart of another human being takes more than just technique, it relies on expression. It is the expression that makes the music really sing to you.
Musical expression flows most freely when the tune or song is in the head and its essence has been digested or memorised in contrast to reading from a score or manuscript. Two of the greatest musicians of the Twentieth Century, the violinists Yehudi Menhuin and Stephane Grappelly got together for a jam and the chemistry was electric. Their backgrounds and musical approaches were quite different, Menhuin the classically trained violinist and Grappelly the self-taught violinist who famously played with Django Reinhardt the legendary gypsy jazz guitarist.
Now, gypsy jazz has a powerful following today in Europe and the USA and the technical ability of these guitarists is simply awesome. Within the flowing romantic melodies is great discipline. A few guitarists stand out, one in particular is Jimmy Rosenberg who is also a master of improvisation. It is almost impossible to get bored listening to his guitar playing.
Maybe it is a gift to improvise as I have met many accomlipshed musicians who cannot improvise and it seems to be more than just letting go or trying to undo some of the formality of structured learning. It is a state of mind and using the child play analogy is a very strong creative impulse to invent or make up as you go along. Adults tend to be conditioned to succeeed which makes the notion of failure uncomfortable and perhaps to improvise would be to stick one's neck out and take a risk that bad notes might occur or one would simply dry up and make a fool of oneself. So a certain carefree attitude and boldness to take risks is a prerequisite if improvisation is something that can be learned.
I am not convinced that improvisation is learned but moreso encouraged although in my own case, a Victorian/Scottish Presbiterian upbringing encouraged the absolute opposite in me! Hence I suspect is a gift to be unravelled in the journey of life.
I was inspired to write this short article off the cuff so to speak as earlier today I was arranging to meet up with a saxophist I perform with. He is a versatile jazz player and we improvise together drawing our inspiration from latin and gypsy jazz. He told me the other day that jazz musicians (in Britain) tend to be a pretty conservative uptight lot and I recalled the one time I was invited to join a local jazz group they were almost irritated that when I played 'The Girl From Ipanema' they were reading religiously from the score whilst I played by ear and added a slightly different introduction which stopped the tune abruptly before it even started. I was not invited back!
My saxophinist friend is a world class player (a modest one) and it is highly satisfying for me in providing an 'anchor' or 'canvass' of guitar chord sequences that he embellishes and takes to great musical heights. He tells me he particularly enjoys playing with me because I allow him the freedom to really blow! Added to this curious mix is the fact that I often forget my chords and throw in different ones which keeps him on is feet and the tunes become a kind of adventure, half-rehearsed and half-improvised.
Improvisation is like that other hugely under rated ability - intuition. Nothing is guesswork as the human brain is capable of making very fine and very fast calculations. To discourage a young child from guessing is to inhibit a natural and valuable ability.
Much great art and invention is based on improvisation and the music that truly reaches the heart comes from the heart and is likely to be improvised.
About the Author
Jeremy Broun established a furniture workshop in 1973 creating innovative art furniture. He has exhibited in the UK, Australia and the USA and is a seasoned and award winning author and woodworking writer. He is a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen (Founded by William Morris), A Churchill Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also an accomplished musician performing on guitars that he builds. He publishes books and DVDs.
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