The Jazz Chrysalis

js wrote: Speaking of audience participation, my friend had this live Parker record from way back and they all must be loaded and are playing everything at break neck speed and people are yelling with the music. Very insane atmosphere, like a really good party.

We saw Joshua Redman about 10 years back and it was one of the normal Jazz audiences and were they pissed with us by the end of the night but the other half the place was rowdy too and they played great with people yellin' and cheering. Well anyway who did the band talk too at the end of the night  yep I have everyone of em's autograph and Aaron Goldberg the pianist sat at the bar with us drinking

^ you're correct, Baroque performers used something similar to today's chord charts and were expected to improvise all the details. That was Europe, in Indian classical music improv is the essence of the music.

Edited by js - 10 Jul 2011 at 9:51pm

Mozart, from the classical period, was known to be a master improviser. Romantic period pianists were known to improvise their cadenza's. 

Edited by js - 11 Jul 2011 at 7:27am

Yeah, we lived near North Texas State, the big jazz school, and you got used to this kind of un-inspiring take on jazz from all the kids playing the clubs etc.

I snuck a cassette deck into a Black Flag show when they were at their peak, two guitarists and Chuck Biscuits on drums, best rock band I have ever seen, incredibly intense. I have it on distorted cassette, they were extremely loud in a small club.

I can remember a big funk festival in dallas where the security had a bunch of big garbage cans lined up to throw all the things they were getting in the pat-downs, ha ha.  A lot of stuff.

I'll do that