“When it comes to improvisation, I like to think that there’s three elements at play: Head, Ear, Hand. And reaction time, as I call it. And I see “head, ear, hand” as what I call the three pillars of improvisation practice, and relating to reaction time. So “jazz reacting” is what I call this. And in many ways, improvisation is a process of reacting. And there’s so many ways that we are reacting when we improvise. Jazz is a process of reacting. Any improvisation is a process of reacting. And my goal with working through this and thinking about how reaction plays into this was to increase the speed of this process – which decreases the reaction time.” — Lorin Cohen, Jazz Bassist and Educator → Watch the full episode: https://musicalitynow.com/283