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My objection is the conflation of [sloppy <---> precise] with [improvised <---> specified]. In reality they're more or less orthogonal qualities; Elvin Jones,
by stephencanon 11y ago
My objection is the conflation of [sloppy <---> precise] with [improvised <---> specified]. In reality they're more or less orthogonal qualities; Elvin Jones, for example, is about as close to a musical equivalent of "controlling every pixel" as I can imagine.
- agumonkey 11y agoI guess jazz is too fuzzy, I heard Miles Davis never played the same note twice, not sure if conscious or not. Roy Haynes says he's not a metronome and everything flows with almost no structure. All in all, it's hard to say if it's controlled or not. These guys have highly refined skills, even when they change course almost randomly, they know how to bend time and harmony, nothing is random.