Definitory Characteristics of Pianistic Expression in the Contemporary Jazz by Florin BĂLAN

Subjects: “…jazz, pianistic improvisation, spontaneity, creativity, harmonic knowledge, contemporary.…”
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AUGUST KITKO AND THE MECHAS FROM SPACE / by White, Alex, author. 466018

“…"Jazz pianist Gus Kitko expected to spend his final moments on Earth playing piano at the greatest goodbye party of all time, and maybe kissing rockstar Ardent Violet, before the last of humanity is wiped out forever by the Vanguards--ultra-powerful robots from the dark heart of space, hell-bent on destroying humanity for reasons none can divine. …”

Jason Moran’s Staged: Improvisational Blurring and the Boundaries of Conceptual Art by Tracy McMullen

“…I examine jazz pianist Jason Moran’s conceptual artwork, Staged (2015/18), in order to interrogate the intersection between improvisation and contemporary art. …”
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Raymond Monelle. 2006. The Musical Topic: Hunt, Military, and Pastoral. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. by Andrew Haringer

“…He was that rare breed of the true performer-scholar who remained active as a composer, jazz pianist, and conductor, nurturing the boyhood talents of now-prominent Scottish musicians Donald Runnicles and James MacMillan in the latter capacity. …”
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Rapidly reversible acute neurological, renal, and cardiac impairment during malignant hypertension by Giulia Nardi, Silvia Menale, Valentina Scheggi, Niccolò Marchionni

“…Case summary A 41-year-old jazz pianist with a family history of coronary artery disease presented to the emergency department for asthenia and epigastric pain, associated with right eye visual impairment. …”
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Agency and Creativity in Musical Performance by Eugene Montague

“…To examine such interactions, I analyze three case studies drawn from a variety of repertoires: a powerful commentary on Michael Jackson’s song Human Nature by jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, a formulaic variation on Viennese clichés by Johann Schenk, and a mining of rhythmic expectations by Sviatoslav Richter in Beethoven’s piano sonata Op. 57. …”
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The role of emotion in musical improvisation: an analysis of structural features. by Malinda J McPherson, Monica Lopez-Gonzalez, Summer K Rankin, Charles J Limb

“…In this study, we examined the structural features of unconstrained musical improvisations generated by jazz pianists in response to emotional cues. We hypothesized that musicians would not utilize any universal rules to convey emotions, but would instead combine heterogeneous musical elements together in order to depict positive and negative emotions. …”
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Anodal tDCS to right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates performance for novice jazz improvisers but hinders experts by David S Rosen, Brian Erickson, Youngmoo E. Kim, Daniel Mirman, Roy H Hamilton, John Kounios

“…We tested this hypothesis with jazz pianists whose expertise was indexed by the number of public performances given. …”
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