Klarinet Archive - Posting 000040.txt from 1995/05

From: Alan Saul <saul+@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Improvisation
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 17:33:03 -0400

>If a student came to you and asked you to teach him/her how to improvise,
>what would be the first steps you would advise that student to take?
>
>fred cicetti <cicetti@-----.com>

One thing I might do is tell the student to buy Paul Berliner's book!

If you haven't checked it out yet, it's "Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art
of Improvisation", University of Chicago Press, 1994.

The teacher should probably read it too :-).

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Alan Saul
saul+@-----.edu