Re: Popularity/influence/etc.

[Greg Waltzer <gwaltzer@optonline.net>]

ernesto schnack wrote:

> Of course many
> people listen to improvised music, but i wouldn't call it mainstream.
> But that depends what one considers to be "mainstream."  I know improv
> doesn't automatically equal experimental, but i don't see an
> improv-based piece going #1 anytime soon either.

I guess that many hits have parts that start out being improvised. But then
they are refined, edited, mixed etc. Then the same exact version is played 
on
the radio thousands of times, so it bears little resemblance to improvised
music!