Set vs Free
How do CBS get ready for an improv gig? Do such preparations fit with the idea of it being an improv gig at all? Its a question of degrees: To what extent are you improvising? If the improvisations are truly open you start playing and go where the music takes you, trusting in that journey and in the players that you are working with etc. Thinking about pre-defined points on the journey doesn't come into it. However CBS doesn't work in that way. We use a short minimal list of
Manchester and Preston Gigs
Manchester Jimmys November 28th. Preston Vinyl Tap December 3rd.
What's Going On?
Our session at the weekend got off to a difficult start. I was delayed and kept the players waiting a long time. Possibly as a result, the improvisations were a little reserved at first. However a new phrase exercise in E Major really seemed to get the session going and I felt a familiar and very pleasant feeling of 'not really knowing where this is coming from but it is good'. As the improvisation finished Connor Daniels reaffirmed my thoughts by saying something about us st
McLaughlin's words of wisdom
"... I just want to be who I am... the wonderful thing about jazz music and Indian music for that matter is the spontaneity that is an integral part of the music. And in spontaneity is when we are most honest I think, most true to ourselves. We are not thinking about what we are, who we might be or we don't have time to think. When you are acting spontaneously or you are playing spontaneously you are just yourself." Jazz Guitar Greats BBC Radio 2 Episode 4, Broadcast 17th Sep
