This thread is weird. How come everyone is talking jazz in just one style? I have been playing for Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra <http://jazzcomposersalliance.org/> last 18 years of so. Several different composers writes different styles, but all of them are heavily instructed. This is still jazz because we still groove between on top and behind the beat :-)
One of the composers writes meter changes and tempo changes a lot, yet they don't sound mechanical or artificial, because the way notated is natural to us. Sometimes we have guest composers, who might care rather less, like 3/4 groove moves into 6/8 groove but there is no time sig change. We usually rehearse 3-4 times before the show. If music wasn't clearly dictating, someone, probably rhythm section, will have problem grooving in a pocket on the day of the show. This is the way it is for this type of gigs around here. I believe the original poster of this thread was working on contemporary style rather than traditional one. shirling & neueweise / 2007/03/04 / 12:21 PM wrote: >i don't recall seeing heavily marked charts before, but other jazz >musicians can clarify; George Russell even writes out bass line, no changes for bass player. 1972 recording, Living Time, Ron Carter said to George right after the first reading: "George, I played all the notes you wrote. Now do you mind if I try my own?" Ron of course blew George away. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
