Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-06-23 18:58
The notation for basic jazz and blues melodies is the outline. Standard performance practice expects improvisation based on the tune - anywhere from simple embellishment to substituting something completely different. In normal jazz performance the players improvise a great deal of what they play, based, again, on the tune but also the chords that are used to harmonize the tune. So what you hear in a recorded performance is, depending on the player, improvised to one extent or another. The bigger the band, the more the players needed to stay with the written notation, but even then solo choruses were normally improvised.
So, as the others have said, to learn the style of play and of jazz improvisation, you need to listen to a lot of playing. It doesn't hurt to know some basic theory and harmony, either.
Karl
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