Improvisation to me it represents a great resource to bring composer, performer and audience closer together and something definitely worth rediscovering.

Improvisation wasn´t born in New York nor in the cotton plantation of the south… its origins are lost in an ancient past were musical expression was regarded as the language of the immaterial world a way to amplify human emotions.

Mythical figures, poets, philosophers even statesmen… Before musical notation was even conceived, composers were improvisers using their craft to understand how the geometry of this ineffable world was capable to influence mankind as well as the stars in the sky.

keep that in mind next time you look closer to some of the masterworks of classical music era… you will see that many of them were, either inspired from, or just improvisations written down and later refined.

Improvisation is a method, a tool to tell a story that the improviser, unlike an actor, doesn’t recite by memory. Instead, he fixes in his mind the general plot to then start the narration; reacting to what he feels in the moment, to what his colleagues do… Even the audience can become part of the process.

to me that´s what links jazz and cello: there´s no better way to learn how to improvise that through jazz.