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===<span style="color:fuchsia">What makes improvisations good?</span>===<br />
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<span style="color:blue">One can specify what jazz educators and musicians consider positive aspects of an effective jazz solo during an improvisation. </span> <br/><br />
<span style="color:blue">An effective improvisation occurs when a performer: </span><br />
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: <span style="color:navy">1. Demonstrates a knowledge of musical theory. </span> <br/><br />
: <span style="color:navy">2. Uses melodic motifs and/or sequences. </span> <br/> <br />
: <span style="color:navy">3. Plays with appropriate time feel and/or rhythm. </span> <br/><br />
: <span style="color:navy">4. Plays with good technical facility. </span> <br/><br />
: <span style="color:navy">5. Develops the solo in a logical manner. </span> <br/><br />
: <span style="color:navy">6. Plays with emotional expression. </span><br/><br />
: <span style="color:navy">7. Plays with appropriate style. </span> <br/><br />
: <span style="color:navy">8. Shows imagination and creativity. </span> <br/><br />
: <span style="color:navy">9. Effectively uses chromatic approach tones. </span> <br/><br />
: <span style="color:navy">10. Has effective interaction and dialog with musical partners. </span><br/><br />
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<span style="color:green">“To be a '''''competent jazz improviser''''', a musician must '''understand theory and harmony''', have a background of '''intensive ear training''', and be '''highly proficient on his performing instrument'''. Furthermore, his '''mastery of compositional tools''' is appraised every time he performs because '''jazz improvisation''' consists of '''simultaneously composing and performing'''.”</span><ref>[http://jazzstyles.net/is-jazz-popular-music/ "Is Jazz Popular Music?,"] <span style="color:blue">Mark Gridley, February 12, 2019.</span></ref> <span style="color:blue">(bold and bold italic not in original) </span> <br />
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baker_(composer) David N. Baker] (1931-2016) American jazz composer, conductor, musician, and former Director of Jazz Studies at Indiana University,<ref><span style="color:blue">Baker served as both conductor and musical artistic director for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and created more than sixty-five recordings, seventy books, and four hundred articles. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baker_(composer) ''Wikipedia'': David N. Baker.]</span></ref> supplies a list of [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZIdU-sD0KiwC&q=table#v=onepage&q&f=false "Guidelines for Contemporary Playing"] at the beginning of his well known textbook for jazz students, <br/> <br/>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZIdU-sD0KiwC&q=table#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Modern Concepts in Jazz Improvisation'',] (1990) [[file:ModernConceptsInJazzImprovisationBookCover1.png|link=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZIdU-sD0KiwC&q=table#v=onepage&q&f=false]], on pages seven and eight. </span> <br />
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<span style="color:blue">To fail at any of the above factors is to make one’s performance open to the criticism that one has made mistakes. For more on mistakes in jazz see the PoJ.fm's [[Mistakes | Mistakes page.]] </span> <br/><br />
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<span style="color:blue">Important factors for assessing the quality of an improvisation: </span> <br/><br />
: <span style="color:navy">1. Personal/individual voice (auditory tonal style). </span><br />
: <span style="color:navy">2. Individual expression (can express musical ideas that reveal emotions or show a 'spirituality,' etc.). </span><br />
: <span style="color:navy">3. Clarity of musical thought and purpose. </span><br />
: <span style="color:navy">4. Aesthetic relationships related to the following: consistent with, aberrant from, poorly executed, masterfully performed, extended and insightful musical addition, etc. to the original. </span><br />
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