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Just curious, how many improvising and jazz musicians here listen to a diverse range of instrumentalists, not just confining most of your listening or emulating to pianists?
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Classical-wise, I listen to a fair bit of orchestral music and a lot of chamber music. I'm also a huge fan of choral music.
Jazz-wise, I'm really into Joe Henderson these days. Also listen to a lot of Jobim and Miles, some Jim Hall, and Paul Desmond.
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It's funny because as a Jazz musician I listen to a lot of other genres of music mostly. :p
But yes, I listen to and transcribe from other instruments, a lot of times sax and guitar.
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My listening tends to be a collection of odd extremes rather than a calculatedly eclectic exposure. Of classical and contemporary ragtime I never tire. I often listen to classical Chinese and Indian music. I rarely listen to strictly classical orchestral music or jazz but I listen to a fair amount of more modern orchestral music. I frequently turn on the radio to the concert programme at random.
I guess it would be fair to say around 80% of my listening comprises piano music and a very large part of that would be spent listening to recordings of my own improvisation. While that is a factual answer, I am not sure of its implication, other than that my musical impulse seems to be fed by the life of the mind, and by external stimuli of a completely non-musical nature rather than by other music. I certainly haven't listened with a view to emulate anybody for decades.
Actually, that was a good question, and the answer surprised me.
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Originally posted by Ted2:
My listening tends to be a collection of odd extremes rather than a calculatedly eclectic exposure. Of classical and contemporary ragtime I never tire. I often listen to classical Chinese and Indian music. I rarely listen to strictly classical orchestral music or jazz but I listen to a fair amount of more modern orchestral music. I frequently turn on the radio to the concert programme at random.
I guess it would be fair to say around 80% of my listening comprises piano music and a very large part of that would be spent listening to recordings of my own improvisation. While that is a factual answer, I am not sure of its implication, other than that my musical impulse seems to be fed by the life of the mind, and by external stimuli of a completely non-musical nature rather than by other music. I certainly haven't listened with a view to emulate anybody for decades.
Actually, that was a good question, and the answer surprised me. I think my point in asking that question was to illustrate and make aware that inspiration can come from any source. Not necessarily piano, and not necessarily jazz. I listen to everything. This last weekend's listening included Honegger's Christmas Cantata, Morton Subotnick's "the Wild Bull" (Electronic piece), Art Pepper and Warne Marsh (alto and tenor sax players), and a bunch of 70s and 80s disco on the radio (Earth Wind and Fire, Donna Summer/Georgio Moroder, various funk/r&b bands), while traveling in the car. The ear absorbs it all, and whatever styles you play in, what you've absorbed will eventually come out and influence your path at your instrument!
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The last couple of weeks I have been listening to:
Ken Burns the five cd soundtrack
Chicago blues jam with Fenton Robinson and James Harmen
Otis Rush and friends at Montreux
Marvin Gaye the life and death of Marvin Gaye
Standards II Keith Jarrett Gary Peacock Jack DeJohnette
Rendezvous in New York Chich Corea
Chopin waltzs and preludes
Alexander Scriabin
Symphony No. 5, Opus 60 (Prometheus, Poem of Fire)
Symphony No. 4, Opus 54 (Poem of Ecstasy)
Plus movies
Piano blues by Clint Eastwood
Legend of 1900 with Tim ROTH
Walk the Line Joaquin Phoenix Reese Witherspoon
Moulin Rouge Nicole Kidman Ewan MacGregor
that is just some of the music I have been enjoying the last couple of weeks and of course stuff I have done with different groups this last year. Dpvjazz
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