Wynton at Harvard, Chapter 6: Approaches to Improvisation

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Delve into Wynton Marsalis's six-part Harvard University lecture series, covering a range of topics including jazz, what it means to be American, and the importance of cultural literacy and the arts in the liberal arts education.
VI. Approaches to Improvisation
In this chapter, Wynton describes the many ways to improvise.
Go to jazz.org/wyntonatharvard for the complete series.
"Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music" is a series of six lectures delivered at Harvard University between 2011 and 2014 sponsored by the Office of the President and Provost. The inaugural lecture, “Music as Metaphor,” was delivered in Sanders Theatre to a capacity crowd. It is an interpretation of the many unobserved symbols in American music and an investigation into how they illuminate the democratic process.
It covers many of the fundamental devices, forms, and songs that bind the different Americas together at the root. It is Marsalis's contention that "'Me vs. You' and 'Us vs. Y'all'-vs. 'All of Us'-remains the struggle at the heart of humankind and the central debate of our Constitution. How do we achieve a common ground when individual victories are so much more valued? This conundrum has been resolved harmoniously in our musical arts for more than a century. Under the vibrant din of our democracy, on the lower frequencies, sonic metaphors speak to and for us all. What they tell us about what it means to be American could serve us well in these divisive and uncivil times."
Performances by Marsalis's ensemble (with special guest, the iconic fiddler Mark O'Connor) punctuate the lecture with musical explanations.
Mark O’Connor - fiddle
Walter Blanding - reeds
James Chirillo - guitar
Dan Nimmer - piano
Carlos Henriquez - bass
Ali Jackson - drums
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@kofiperry19 4 жыл бұрын

the guitarist starts counting him off at 1:23 and the drummer nails it right in the pocket!

@ariscarino9525 2 жыл бұрын

Episode after episode of interesting narratives and delightful musical samples. Bravo!

@lexdunn4160 2 жыл бұрын

Holy sh*t Marsalis is amazing.

@mvunit3 6 жыл бұрын

All the techniques of the past, that influence Rock, Hard/Heavy Rock and Metal (and Progressive Rock). The plunger - to the guitar Wah Wah pedal. It's all there if people only looked closer instead of being naysayers that don't see the cominality. What an awesome series.

@caseylockwood5512 2 жыл бұрын

3:34 it looks like Wynton is trolling the guitarist, trying to annoy him or something haha, looks like he is looking right at him as he plays that wild stuff. Jokes aside, this series has been incredible so far.

@bradensmith22 2 жыл бұрын

I believe he and the pianist are trying to stay in each others time (either that or trying to throw each other out of time for fun)

@altairch.4273 2 жыл бұрын

@@bradensmith22 yea him and the pianist are just messing around playing whatever cos it's funny

@wellington66440 10 ай бұрын

right? I read it as if he and the pianist were saying something like ''come on, let's play in the park it'll be fun!'' and the guitarrist is just ''nope''.