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Improvisation in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Improvisation in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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U.S.A.

JAZZ

  • Alliance for Improvised Music links
  • Artists House video clips on improvisation
  • Critical Studies in Improvisation
  • Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra videos; Coltrane interviews
  • “Giant Steps,” John Coltrane (transcription)
  • Anthony Braxton’s Language Music (Nate Wooley)
  • Steve Lacy on composition and improvisation in 15 seconds
  • Bill Evans 1965
  • Frank Zappa on improvisation (starting 12:55)
  • Big Bands
    • Swing, Best of (Tommy Dorsey, Ray Anthony, Benny Carter)
    • Quincy Jones Big Band (1960)
    • Duke Ellington Band (1964, Montreal)
    • George Russell Big Band (1967, Sweden)
    • Inside the Big Band (US Army Field Band)
  • Jaki Byard Quartet, “Bass-ment Blues” (1965)

EXPERIMENTAL

  • John Cage and ars combinatoria

RAP

  • Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (documentary)
  • 8 Mile Rap Battles; w/English subtitles (interpretation of lyrics on rapgenius.com)
  • Jin 106 and Park Freestyles
  • King Tim III and Fatback Band (1979)
  • Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five with Melle Mel, White Lines (1983)
  • Andre 3000: A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (at 2:30)
  • Analyses
    • “On the Metrical Techniques of Flow in Rap,” Kyle Adams; response by Justin Williams
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  • Americas
    • U.S.A.
    • Cuba
  • Asia
    • India
      • Hindustani
      • Karnatak
    • Japan
    • China
    • Indonesia
  • Europe
  • Links

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