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Old 01-29-2011, 06:10 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Naked City is actually quite a bit more complicated than that. The thing that's amazing about Naked City is that none of it is improvised, really. The technicality comes in the fact that the assortments are basically constructed exactly as they are, and followed to a T. The entire point of Naked City was to be difficult to perform. Whether your ear likes it or not, is up to you. But don't dis the amount of technicality that's going on there.

< Watch at 3:11 where Fred Frith describes how Naked City operated.
Oh, I see what you mean. This will help open my mind a lot more. A lot of it just seemed so visceral and done on the spot, but now I get it. Thanks.
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