JAZZ IMPROVISATION AS AN OBJECT OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING AND MUSICOLOGICAL INTEREST

Abstract

Currently, the Ukrainian musicology perspective piano jazz improvisation provided a rather fragmented (separate publication), which fundamentally meets the dynamic activity and performance practices of modern Ukrainian jazz pianists. So important is this contradiction filling "theory and practice" and forming concepts performing improvisational jazz pianist skills. Given the importance of improvisation for the evolution of music in general, most researchers improvising in jazz, anyway, turning to the historical and cultural context of improvisation as the main form of jazz music. In particular, the main issue in these works is the interaction of the principles of musical composition and improvisation as the main forms of musical creativity. Another significant trend of interest to musicologists and performers of jazz improvisation - a variety of types and forms that emerged in the evolution of both folk and professional music and jazz in the depths of performance practice. Often debated among researchers principles of interaction of individual creative freedom improviser and output predetermined musical material. The most important line of study jazz improvisation is problematic structural and compositional specifics of the process of improvisation in jazz music. Another very important area of scientific interest in jazz improvisation – improvisation process psychology question – are few studies of recent decades. Important and widely represented in the variety of their specific manifestations – performing, pedagogical, musicological – is studying jazz improvisation in the methodological aspect, which aims at developing learning systems musician art of improvisation. Each of these areas forms a special subject matter, which, ideally, should interact theoretical and practical (executive) experience researcher.