Explorations on Improvisation

In this hour-long session we look at connections in improvisation between early music and jazz. Lucas Harris, a specialist in Baroque and renaissance lutes and guitars, shows us how vital improvisation and variation was to the realization of musical scores from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Paul Grabowsky, master pianist, composer and arranger, brings the perspective of a modern jazz musician, and together they tease out fascinating connecti...