A good friend of mine that is a great jazz keyboardist mentioned to me recently that he never was much into prog and got the impression that it was a genre full of musicians that hoped to play jazz, but just settled for prog because they didn't have what it took to do jazz well.
I told him as far as I could tell most of the prog musicians I know really didn't care much about jazz or wish to play it, that their playing of prog was because of their love of the genre, not just "settling".
Thoughts?
And is great prog really easier to play than great jazz? I'd venture to guess remembering a ten minute tune with twenty parts isn't in most jazzer's wheelhouses. Though they could probably do it easier than a prog guy convincingly playing jazz, I suspect....
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