Jean-Michel Pilc, jazz pianist and faculty member of Steinhardt School, New York University, has written a remarkable book about the artistic and creative proce

Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creativ

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A musical practice used for centuries the world over, improvisation too often has been neglected by scholars who dismiss it as either technically undissectible