Lee Barry

A part doesn't necessarily stand for the whole. I was just watching an interview (quite an old interview) with Pat Metheny and he was talking about the importance of studying the form before you can be a good improviser, or to have the ability to play a good part. For example, a bass player has to understand the harmony to a large degree because it's foundational. If you're going to build a building you have to understand the geology to understand what the engineering will require.

What’s the idea about new ideas? Why do we feel the urgency to pursue them simply for the sake of progress, and innovation, or to continue to be postmodernist? This has been the case (at least in my view) beginning in the early to mid-aughts, and surely before then in the 90s.