Yeah it's not true at all, just look at russell's lydian chromatic concept for example, and how much new ideas for jazz and improvisation that it spawned. Theor

Yeah it's not true at all, just look at russell's lydian chromatic concept for example, and how much new ideas for jazz and improvisation that it spawned. Theory does not only come after practice. Oh how I wish people would stop venting their fantasies of the god gift whenever the subject of music comes up