International jazz combo includes Oklahoma musician on guitar, sitar Top photo by Sarah Hussain / Lower photo courtesy Sean O’Bryan Smith. Sitar player Max Ridgway (above) and bassist Sean O’Bryan Smith (below) contribute to the Kazhargan World Jazz Group. ANDREW W. GRIFFIN | APRIL 18, 2017 CATEGORY: RUSTY’S MUSIC ALVA, Okla. – Although Max Ridgway […]
Month: April 2017
Observations on Free Improvisation by Max Ridgway The Harvard Dictionary of Music defines musical improvisation as “the art of performing music as an immediate reproduction of simultaneous mental processes, that is, without the aid of manuscript or memory…a phenomenon the evanescent nature of which defies documentation and detailed description.” As this definition suggests, musical […]