Klarinet Archive - Posting 000758.txt from 2000/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Jazz artistic achievement [was, Peplowski continued]
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:05:02 -0500

At 02:08 PM 12/13/2000 GMT, Tony Pay wrote:
>I don't know what the earliest recorded example is of someone
>improvising a complex formal structure, but Bach could improvise fugues,
>and Mozart and his contemporaries, sonatas; though variations and
>fantasias were perhaps more popular. There were even improvising
>contests!

Not unlike the "cutting contests" jazz musicians engage in.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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