{"id":203,"date":"2009-07-03T13:43:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T17:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2009-07-03T13:43:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T17:43:22","slug":"in-jazz-a-song-is-just-a-suggestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/in-jazz-a-song-is-just-a-suggestion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In Jazz, A Song Is Just A Suggestion&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a clip from a longer show about John Coltrane. The title of this post comes from a small interview with Joshua Redman and I loved it as soon as it came out of his mouth.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kkLwPDRz4o4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It is really weird to hear him say this because I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanheartbreak.com\/rnrgeekwp\/?p=1118\">Michael Butler&#8217;s excellent interview with Donovan in Rock N Roll Geek Episode 357<\/a> (which is one of the best interviews he has done) and a piece of advice was given regarding songwriting. Donovan asked Keith Richards about songwriting and was told (I&#8217;m paraphrasing here) &#8220;When I get ready to write a song, I listen to three Buddy Holly songs in a row, then I write a fourth.&#8221;  Donovan and Butler talked for a few more minutes about doing that process.<\/p>\n<p>That form of songwriting is what Redman describes. The only difference I can see is that long-form jazz allows for the musician to take familiar songs and add to it through improvisation, but the short-form nature of pop songs and rock tunes only allows for straight reinterpretation or else the songwriter is labelled as derivative at best.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s4qjpKAj_Kk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a clip from a longer show about John Coltrane. The title of this post comes from a small interview with Joshua Redman and I loved it as soon as it came out of his mouth. It is really weird to hear him say this because I was listening to Michael Butler&#8217;s excellent interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,39,15],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos","tag-coltrane","tag-creativity","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9C8-3h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}