The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently

[mjzee]

Interesting article from medicalxpress.com: Miles Davis is not Mozart: The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently

[paul secor]

Odd title for the article. Is Miles Davis a jazz pianist? Hey may have played keyboards occasionally, but ...

[JSngry]

Lots of people are not Mozart, and I'm not complaining.

[HutchFan]

Interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing.

I think this is an example of science telling us -- in a quantifiable way -- something that we already knew.  The disciplines are different.

[T.D.]

3 hours ago, paul secor said:

Odd title for the article. Is Miles Davis a jazz pianist? Hey may have played keyboards occasionally, but ...

It also didn't help to misspell "Jarret" in the second word of the article!

[Big Beat Steve]

It would have been interesting to know what Friedrich Gulda (or one of those third-streamers) would have had to say about this. Or if André Previn felt he had to overcome a perceptible difficulty when he got into jazz in the 40s and would have had to "switch" as described in that paper.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I don't think Andre Previn would agree.

[JSngry]

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.