To: P-Marlowe
Improvisation on established themes was the central musical experience for Bach, Mozart, Schubert, you name it. Gershwin and pre-ideological jazz are thus much closer to that tradition than cerebrally through-composed stuff.
To: PianoMan
My shift's over, I'm heading home, good night from 30 Rock.
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