SV: more on this temperament thing

[Ola Andersson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: David J. Severance 
> 
> David
> 
> Bill Evan's 12 tone tune is the only atonal jazz composition I can think
> of if there are more please let me know.  
I think it was Coltrane who had a twelve tone blues.
Very clever done

>Again I think you are confusing
> modulation with tonality which has a very specific meaning.  Atonality is
> a compositional technique that was developed by Arnold Schoenberg and is
> the systematic avoidance of permitting any single pitch to sound as a
> tonal center.  
There is alot atonal jazz. But less now then in the 60s-80s I think

>Jazzers improvise the melody,
> the
> rhythm the chord voicings but the one thing they don't improvise are the
> changes! 
Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarret does

> David Severance
> 

This makes me think about the costumer who asked me very serious if jazz musicians could see what they played,
because they didn't always look at there hands. 
And I said yes! Even a blind pianist can play.
He went away and thought, then he came back and asked if Jazz pianist could realy HEAR what they played!
I said yes! but it doesn't always sound as that. He agreed. Fun story and a lovely old man.

Ola Andersson