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122.231Conceptual “The Bare Necessities”
Do not simply apply:
New Orleans
stride
bossa
funk
one after another.
Choose:
a few personal principles.
Perhaps:
- conversational bass responses
- dry articulation
- unexpected rests
- sparse borrowed color
Then even stylistic variations remain:
coherent.