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The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently


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23 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I don't think Andre Previn would agree.

I think he might.

More immediately germane to this forum, perhaps, is the difference between playing "pop" and "jazz"...Dave Liebman, and more famously, Branford Marsailis, have commented on that you can't just do one, flip a switch, and then go right back to the other. They're ultimately separate mindsets, un;less you just want to play the same thing no matter the setting.

There are basic musical skills and esthetics that will apply across the board for most all musics. But then there are distinct, necessary, differences. You don't marvel at Pet Sounds for the exact reasons you marvel at Interstellar Space for the exact same reasons you marvel at Noonah. The notion of "it's all music" is true, but only if you know that "music" can get to be a lot of different things. The macro and the micro will validate/enforce each other, but one by itself is just poor math/lazy thinking.

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