BeatJazz is 1. Live looping, 2. Jazz improvisation And 3. Gestural sound design.

Because we now have new methods that can enable us to take this process of something like this, complex jazz improvisation, and study it rigorously.

And this video is a video of Keith Jarrett, who's a well known jazz improviser and probably the most well known, iconic example of someone who takes improvisation to a really higher level.

Jazz fusion is a combination of rock and jazz.

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

I like jazz.

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I like jazz music.

Each time I street juggle I use improvisation.

Instead, I'd like to try something called improvisation.

This is a jazz band.

I'm very interested in jazz.

Does Tom still like jazz?

Now improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown.

There's the improvisational side of jazz.

Every mistake is an opportunity in jazz.

So jazz, this bandstand is absolutely amazing.

I started with improvisation, in a particular form of improvisation called theater games, which had one rule, which I always thought was a great rule for an ethic for a society.

Japanese young people like rock and jazz music.

Mediation and improvisation also assume a special place in this new pantheon.

Now when I think about improvisation and the language, well what's next?

But too many rules prevent accomplished jazz musicians from improvising.

And that actually reminded me of jazz great, Charlie Parker.

Now inspired moves of improvisation could be recorded, saved, considered, prioritized, made into intricate designs.

Or just think about American jazz or American movies they go everywhere.

And then there's the bottom one, which is called the jazz paradigm.

And the other dynamic of it is that we don't micromanage in jazz.

Or a jazz poster with a happy face and a more aggressive face.

I'm going to show you a clip now of the very first improvisation session that we had.

And, as with jazz, the dancers liked certain sections more than they did others.

Well we're jazz musicians, so stereotypically we don't have a great relationship to finance.

Jazz musicians need some notes most of them need some notes on the page.

As I like to say, these are not the jazz areas of the brain.

They did ballet they did tap they did jazz they did modern they did contemporary.

I thought I could jazz it up a bit, have a little fun with it.

The MC would improvise lyrics in the same way that the jazz players would improvise melodies.

And sometimes it's about a legacy of the neighborhood, like in Morrisania, about the jazz history.

Charles Limb This is a plastic MIDI piano keyboard that we use for the jazz experiments.

In a lot a ways, rap serves the same social function that jazz used to serve.

And there began to be a real difference at this point between the art of improvisation and the art of composition.

Now I'm going to review a study that I did, which was jazz in an fMRI scanner.

And so the will to do the right thing is just as important as the moral skill of improvisation and exception finding.

The way my co author , Ken, and I talk about it, they are kind of like jazz musicians.

The culture in which we live now is awash with music of improvisation that's been sliced, diced, layered and, God knows, distributed and sold.

So the idea of a mistake From the perspective of a jazz musician, it's easier to talk about someone else's mistake.