Re: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Free Jazz Handbook

["Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jazmaan wrote:
> If you need a handbook to play free jazz, you should probably try 
> some other genre.

then Garry Hodgson wrote:
> perhaps not everyone is as advanced a musician as you.
> we all need to start somewhere.

and Roger A Gonzales wrote:
> You can't really be serious about this statement.  The best Jazz 
> players in the world used books to study from.  

Come on, guys!  Free jazz is a purely improvisational form generally 
seen as disgarding the "rules" of conventional jazz, including set 
chord changes, tempo, key signatures, and other structures (listen 
to Ornette Coleman): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_jazz  

If it has a "handbook" it's almost NOT free jazz by definition!  
It's a JOKE!  

-tim