Does this mean we jazz bloggers are all geniuses?
I spotted this news item
in the ‘I’ (Independent) newspaper on Thursday this week. It said that there had been a study done at
John Hopkins University in Maryland (USA) which showed that jazz players
‘activate parts of their brain normally associated with spoken language’. Apparently improvisation activates brain
areas linked to language processing, which helps with interpreting the
structure of phrases and sentences.
Now by my reckoning,
users of this blog come well out of this, as we all deal with jazz, and we read
and write about it as well. This
includes we singers, especially those who use lots of scat (Note to myself:
must start scatting more!) Just a thought.
Ann Alex
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