To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.
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Roscoe Mitchell
These are some quotes by American author Roscoe Mitchell Composer, who was born on August 3, 1940.
Quotes by Roscoe Mitchell
It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'
