DAN WALLACE MUSIC

I’m not really interested in the question, “What is jazz?”, but I do find it funny that there are things called  ”jazz purists,” such as the one featured in this guardian.co.uk blog post.
I don’t understand the idea of being a purist about anything (which is part of why I don’t care for the need to commit to [...]

I first read this article about improvisation by Sonny Sharrock about 20 years ago, and it always stuck with me. It’s interesting to revisit it now. I find it just as fascinating. By the way, I don’t agree with his statement that 90% of Jazz is improvised. It’s much much much less than that (20% [...]