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godchaser · 07-05-2008, 11:21 AM

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'Regarding performance pressure, I have always marvelled at the way in which top jazz musicians perform gig after gig to such a high standard, creating new and exciting improvisations every night without fail. Do they reach a point in their development that it all feels incredibly easy to them? If that's the case then do they get bored of it? After all, we all like to have a go at playing something which is a bit beyond us don't we?'

Hey Pablo; nice post. Wish i had come across it before. -That's what appeals to me about wanting to pursue Jazz peformance: the freedom of improvisation. It allows for the Musician to watch the music as it happens, and let it show the way, while the influence of the audiences' 'sensitivity' comes through? I suspect we're all as sensitive as the next person's my meaning, but haven't had the same expressive opportunites as yet. Which may well be societies 'egocentric' accounting of artiest, being thought more sensitive? -It doesn't add up? We've all felt how the emotion of a crowd can move us. I'll never forget when i was just a little kid standing on the seat to try and see Hank Aaron hit a game winning Homer. The crowd was going wild for it- willing it- and he got out of the way and put it over the fence. The intensity of the crowd noise was astounding. Particularly so to a kid? This can't be any different than a Musician seeing the music and letting it be what's there? No way in the world, anybody'll ever convince me we're not all as sensitive as the next, however voyeuristic or perceptibly focused our universal position of 'Alpha' may be. I'd guess this dynamic of participation's no different between fellow artists?

Which i guess is why great Musicians are pliable and never fixated of positional-influence? Or better still, they're oblivious when the artist and audience strikes that elusive-connection found expression? Regardless of the formal structure of Orchestral peformance or the impulsive structure of improvisation, it's gotta be some high flyin' for sure. Least this is my romantic view as yet. Which was cause of my outloud thinking earlier.

It may well be that i gravitate to street-performance. Although i'd imagine that money and other peripheral distrations arun't anymore apparent on stage than the rest?

Chris

07-05-2008, 11:21 AM	#16 (permalink)
godchaser Mezzo Piano User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 661	Re: The glamorous world of professional musicians? . 'Regarding performance pressure, I have always marvelled at the way in which top jazz musicians perform gig after gig to such a high standard, creating new and exciting improvisations every night without fail. Do they reach a point in their development that it all feels incredibly easy to them? If that's the case then do they get bored of it? After all, we all like to have a go at playing something which is a bit beyond us don't we?' Hey Pablo; nice post. Wish i had come across it before. -That's what appeals to me about wanting to pursue Jazz peformance: the freedom of improvisation. It allows for the Musician to watch the music as it happens, and let it show the way, while the influence of the audiences' 'sensitivity' comes through? I suspect we're all as sensitive as the next person's my meaning, but haven't had the same expressive opportunites as yet. Which may well be societies 'egocentric' accounting of artiest, being thought more sensitive? -It doesn't add up? We've all felt how the emotion of a crowd can move us. I'll never forget when i was just a little kid standing on the seat to try and see Hank Aaron hit a game winning Homer. The crowd was going wild for it- willing it- and he got out of the way and put it over the fence. The intensity of the crowd noise was astounding. Particularly so to a kid? This can't be any different than a Musician seeing the music and letting it be what's there? No way in the world, anybody'll ever convince me we're not all as sensitive as the next, however voyeuristic or perceptibly focused our universal position of 'Alpha' may be. I'd guess this dynamic of participation's no different between fellow artists? Which i guess is why great Musicians are pliable and never fixated of positional-influence? Or better still, they're oblivious when the artist and audience strikes that elusive-connection found expression? Regardless of the formal structure of Orchestral peformance or the impulsive structure of improvisation, it's gotta be some high flyin' for sure. Least this is my romantic view as yet. Which was cause of my outloud thinking earlier. It may well be that i gravitate to street-performance. Although i'd imagine that money and other peripheral distrations arun't anymore apparent on stage than the rest? Chris Last edited by godchaser; 07-05-2008 at 03:19 PM.