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Ep335 - David Moser | The Book of Changes: Jazz in China

Talks at Google

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The Importance of Grammar in Jazz

Chinese jazz players play the music very straight Exactly what's written on the page and I say no you can't just play what's on the page you have to You know play some more stuff bring it out add some notes. Mistakes are normal in jazz. There's no such thing as a mistaken. It has to be interesting when we talk we make mistakes, but nobody says oh a mistake A grammar error. Oh, they don't care. You just you listen to meaning the same thing of jazz you make mistakes Doesn't matter. And he said yeah, the reason is from the times where little kids they say play the music ting hua You know guiju everything they play

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