[Harp-L] Re: Harp-L Digest, Vol 109, Issue 83

[Angelo Adamo <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to say something about playng few/many notes.

I think that everything is good when comes from a choice.

If you talk about Miles Davis and his "few notes poetry", don't forget  
that this phase of his artistic history was the natural prosecution of  
a path started in the 1940s.
At that time, he was playing be bop with Charlie Parker and all the  
great names of that epoch.
What I'm trying to say is that if Miles decided later to play few,  
long notes, he was doing that because he felt that as the right thing  
to do; he managed hi solos this way because he preferred those few to  
a forest of notes.
But, if he would, he could play the forest...
Being an artist of that level to me means also that you know so well  
your instrument and the music that you can prefer something to some  
other thing, being not the slave of your instrument and of the genre  
you are playing.
This way, emotions can flow freely, regardless how many notes you  
decide to use in expressing yourself.

Angelo Adamo