Jazz for aficionados

O-10, we've been down this road way too often and I don't know how or why you got on the subject of practicing; it has little to do with the subject of objectivity and would be applicable to musicians in any genre, not just jazz.  With all due respect you are simply mistaken in making connections that don't exist, and it demonstrates why some of these discussions become so strained.   I won't beat a dead horse and can only suggest that you not be so quick to pull those hairs out.  But, since you brought up the subject of practicing:

"If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it." - Louis Armstrong

Posting this for the benefit of the Great Unwashed,  so we can follow this 'ruckus'.


sub·jec·tive1/səbˈjektiv/ adjective

1. based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions: Contrasted with objective.
synonyms:personal, individual, emotional, instinctive, intuitive

ob·jec·tive1/əbˈjektiv/ adjective

1. (of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts: Contrasted with subjective.
synonyms:impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced, nonpartisan;  More

Don't see why there should be any disagreement.   Each point of view is valid.

Cheers

Frogman, Improvise means to create and perform spontaneously or without preparation.  Improvise comes from the Latin word improvisus, meaning "unforeseen, unexpected." Think about when something unexpected happens to you — you have no choice but to react in the moment, or improvise.

I'm sure he, (meaning my musician friend), practiced so much that he could visualize his instrument in his sleep during his formative years. Why do so many musicians play with their eyes closed? That's because they don't need to even see the thing their playing, even when it's as complex as a "Koto". I saw June Kuramoto play the Koto most of the night with her eyes closed; she was playing improvisational jazz better than on any records I have of "Hiroshima"; with her eyes closed, I even have pictures.

You see classical musicians practicing morning noon and night; I'm sure it must be necessary; but if you are going to be improvising, playing new music that you have in your head, what are you going to practice? When improvising, each note you play, depends on the note someone else played before you; that's why good jazz musicians sound so good, because if you play a wrong note, someone else can play a note that will make it sound good, and it all comes out sounding beautiful.

Although you keep harping on the "fact" that my friend did not practice when he was performing at least three nights a week; the elephant here is "improvisation"; that's the ability to create "spontaneously"; either you got or you don't, but no amount of practice will enable you to do this.




Enjoy the music.

This Morning's Listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT37-5IE4yE


Cheers

Here it is, all the way live HIROSHIMA! I am 100% into this including the Tibetan aspect at the beginning.


                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxImZTT1AEY


I wanted you to see the beautiful June Kuramoto on Koto. I'm sure you can find a better picture if you like what you hear and the audio is not the best; that gal can git down on that Koto when she wants to. I saw them in the 80's at a free concert in the Botanical Gardens, and they played like I've never heard them on any records; they were feeling it, and there was a large responsive audience; that can put high energy into any group.



      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jme2Z0HIzQU

                 

  (she was more beautiful in 1980, it don't last forever)



                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU3oPGanY3I


There is nothing on you tube that will provide an example of that evening, they were feeling good and just jamming.






Enjoy the music.