What is Improvisation in Jazz?

What is improvisational jazz all about? Saxophonist Joshua Redman and pianist Brad Mehldau agree that the answer is vulnerability.
Joshua Redman
Lucas Schmid
Brad Mehldau
Jeffrey Brown

[@kurttoy5035]

Two superb and dynamite musicians!

[@wilsonbamiseadeosun5727]

My best Jazz hero for evermore

[@BartuTuran938]

is it just me or changes between camera angles makes it seem like a video game cutscene

[@adsupermusone8875]

Its too much for sure

[@selmer1971]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@classified9668]

Too funny

[@PieInTheSky9]

I'm dead 💀

[@FlorisVerbeij]

Such a funny frame, thank you

[@valerie_handani_pianist]

Nice conversation!👍👍

[@MrAndygayle]

Brilliant..

[@vincesoder3284]

I think jazz is in a very paradoxical predicament. One the one hand i wished it was so much more appreciated in our world but on the other hand it is so cringe when i hear these bourgeois news castors talking about it like its a new car model. Now i understand that jazz is to be left alone to the authentic true listeners of it. The underground. It is very sad that jazz has been highjacked by the bourgeosie when it acctually came from the oppressed poor people of america.

[@obisraelngawani1373]

what about when I'm practicing my scales, patterns, I feel like I'm memorizing not practicing. but you said improvisation comes instantly

[@martindalmasi5340]

He is a highly intelligent person, like Miguel Zenon , Branford and Wynton,

[@thmsrttg]

Mehldau too!

[@martindalmasi5340]

@@thmsrttg Benny Carter, Diz, Bird, Max, Trane, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, ……

[@mileswhite4329]

Is there more to this video?

[@music_stereo]

No, I don't
If you want to see more, go to WDR and PBS website

[@adsupermusone8875]

I hope so, Joshua is a fantastic player as well as very articulate

[@lukeweston1234]

@@adsupermusone8875 hmm

[@joebrojazz]

What tune is in the background in the beginning?

[@music_stereo]

Joshua Redman - Chill

[@Zxx459]

Privileged musicians. Technical acrobatics.
No DEEP
LACK BEAUTY

[@Zxx459]

.I found their music superficial n empty of life struggles
These 2 guys are outliers...

[@revdeandawg]

Strife is experienced by everyone in different ways.

[@TritoneJazzCamps]

Not everything needs to express a struggle. Even in the most tortured lives there are moments of joy. Part of what we're seeing here is the joy of creating music together.

[@ayoungethan]

what improvising musicians would you recommend instead, then?

[@vova47]

Agreed 100 percent!

[@dustjacket1000]

Nobody knows what the other is struggling with silently.