That someone would be me. Here's your original statement:
I asked you for proof that he made such an outlandish claim. You said you heard it on the radio and told me to search the station's archives for it. I did that and more and found nothing. Your comeback? "I heard it on the radio".
You then went on to make the same claim on another forum, and I replied with the following:
[QUOTE=jazzshrink;1263299]You've made this same claim on other forums over the past year or so. I don't believe that's what he said and when I inquired, you couldn't provide a link to your source. So, I did some research of my own and found this recent Snidero interview in which he said:
"There’s often a misunderstanding when it comes to jazz improvisation, that somehow you’re making it all up as you’re going along out of thin air. I am part of a tradition established by the greatest jazz improvisors - Bird, Miles, Coltrane, Rollins, etc … - which is that there is plenty of pre-conceived material that is used when improvising. You hear it time and again on recordings of jazz greats, the same language on multiple recordings. The trick is to be in the moment, listen, react, and most importantly, be musical.
There will be times that you play something that you’ve played many times before, times when you’re playing variations of things you’ve played before, and times when you play something entirely new. It’s about how you put it together and how in the moment you are when improvising."
I hope you'll agree that this statement is not the same as "the top players didn't improvise".[/QUOTE]
Your response?
[QUOTE=sgcim;1263478]That's not what he said in the interview. He said that they played the exact same things that they played on the out takes. He called it the "great secret about jazz improvisation". He was only referring to the Miles Davis group with Trane at the time. What you[re saying sounds more reasonable.[/QUOTE]
So, now you're here peddling the same crap, claiming: "someone disagreed with me by posting another interview with him, in which he said the same thing, but phrased it differently." What happened to "What you're saying sounds more reasonable."?
I don't understand you, sgcim. You're an accomplished musician, arranger, etc. Snidero's description of the improvisation process in the print interview is spot on, imo. I would think someone with your experience would recognize this, and seriously question what you thought you hear him say on the radio. At the very least, I hope it would discourage you from spreading misinformation without providing any proof beyond, "I heard it."