Archive for March, 2008

Genre Guru

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Came across this interesting website.
Genreguru.com
The focus of the website is the sale of specific guides for improvising different genres, but there are a few interesting things for those who, like me, have an antipathy for paying for things on the internet.
Such as this list of different ways of asking for a genre.

Your brain. Improv.

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

A pair of Johns Hopkins and government scientists have discovered that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow.

This is your brain on Jazz