Re: 10 Favorite Improvisers Thread

[rich <rich@nuvisionsca.com>]

miles davis
charlie parker
jimi hendrix
reuben gonzalez
nusrat fateh ali khan
oscar moore
michael brook
pete kember and jason pierce (spacemen 3 - dreamweapon, specifically)
esquivel
kruder and dorfmeister

disclaimer:  these are not strict 'improvisers', but hell, i just 
wanted to play along!  haha.  actually, alot of you said it was tough 
just to limit it to ten, and when it comes to improvisation, i would 
have a tough time just coming up with ten!  i just appreciate the 
above folks for their sense of taking the notes and harmonic 
structures and ripping it all apart and reassembling it to make it 
their own.  what you end up hearing, IMO, is just expression of 
'them'.  all of the above have their own kind of sonic grinder, i 
guess i would call it, where it doesn't matter what their playing, 
you know by the first few notes that it's them, and you sit back and 
marvel at their personal expression.  does that make sense?

in another life i wanna come back as oscar moore...that man just ripped.


best,

rich