Breaking the “Rules”
The biggest challenge when I improvise is how to create structure without creating limits. How do you choose guidelines that will help you without creating blockades for other ideas?
The biggest challenge when I improvise is how to create structure without creating limits. How do you choose guidelines that will help you without creating blockades for other ideas?
In an attempt to document my work as an improvisational vocalist (and to work with a great bassist!), I approached my mentor friend Anthony Cox last summer about getting into the studio together to play. We finally aligned our schedules earlier this month.
My friend Jawshoowah told me that I had to post this.
It’s a recording of the fanta-bulous-ly talented (and gracious) Lori Dokken and me singing “What a Little Moonlight Can Do.” How it pertains to improv? Lori and I had never performed this song together before. (You can hear Lori help me remember the words in the second verse.)
What a Little Moonlight Can Do