INTERVALS: Playing "free," from Ronan Guilfoyle

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In some jazz quarters, playing open or ‘free’ is still considered to be a cop-out, as if it’s easier somehow than playing changes. But playing good music has everything to do with imagination, creativity, experience and attitude and nothing to do with the format you choose to express yourself in.

Playing open is hard – to do it well and make good music you have to be listening all the time and creating your own structures in real time. When you’re playing changes (which is not easy either . . . ) you at least have the song form as a prefabricated structure to base your improvisations on – with open playing those structures have to be put together on the spot.

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Edited April 1, 2012 by alocispepraluger102