Favourite PS Improviser

[pianoplayjl]

This topic has been on my mind for quite a while. I searched the Polls archive and there were no threads about favourite/best Improviser here. I thought I might just create one to 'fill in the gap'.

Who are your favourite improvisers on pianostreet? Please, if your name is not mentioned here, don't feel offended. It just means perhaps that competition is very very tight here but I'll allow people to put in a few names so you (improvisers) have a smaller chance of missing out!

Who are our favourites?

[ted]

I do not have a favourite. There is a place for it in other aspects of life but I don't like competition in the creative arts, it only discourages "losers" and puffs up the "winners". Anyway, the nature of personal improvisation being what it is, in a certain strict sense, everybody should be his or her own favourite. If an improviser can manifest the deepest aspects of his psyche, his soul if you like, through the instrument over many years, as an ongoing personal development over a lifetime, then that person has no need of either praise or blame.

I hasten to add that my rejection of competition is purely personal. Others, of course, are at liberty to use it as they please.

[pianoplayjl]

I do not have a favourite. There is a place for it in other aspects of life but I don't like competition in the creative arts, it only discourages "losers" and puffs up the "winners". Anyway, the nature of personal improvisation being what it is, in a certain strict sense, everybody should be his or her own favourite. If an improviser can manifest the deepest aspects of his psyche, his soul if you like, through the instrument over many years, as an ongoing personal development over a lifetime, then that person has no need of either praise or blame.

I hasten to add that my rejection of competition is purely personal. Others, of course, are at liberty to use it as they please.

I completely respect your comments on this thread. Thank you for your thoughts.

Thread closed.

JL