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In both instances—the epic poet and jazz musician—the performer learns numerous stock phrases of specific metrical length, and often uses these repeatedly in live renditions. For Homer, these are the descriptors that recur in the Odyssey, such as "rosy-fingered Dawn" or "swift-footed Achilles." Jazz musicians do the same thing, but their building blocks are known as "licks."

Ted Gioia
1w ago

There's like this combination of a deep knowledge of music, a very comfortable and tactile relationship with his instrument, and this sensitivity that he's listening and reacting. He's not, like, sticking to a plan of, 'I know what I can do, and this will work.' He's listening. And there's this river of music inside of Jeff—all the stillness and the violence and the chaos and the absolute ethereal beauty that he can bring to music through his playing.

2w ago

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