Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.
I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality. . . these people play beautifully.
It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.
I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?