Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand
Posted by James on December 25, 2012 · 25 Comments
www.ted.com What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don’t react to them appropriately.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
This color palette called the? F major scale…
AMEN!?
touche ?
because you talk about? him
I have played with Stefon in a Jazz band back in highschool. Love the fact that? free speach and language of music still is free 🙂 Jazz is all about adapting and feeling for the moment.
and lil? wayne is famous because why again?
I remember Stefon from high school in upstate NY. If I remember correctly he was a year behind me? in school. He was not only a good student but he was also a good athlete.
Wow! There is a lot of ignorance out there. If you don’t know who Stefon Harris is check out his albums and his recent work with SF Jazz Collective. And most of you…open your minds! Be? accepting. Respond, don’t react. Think before you post. Avoid the default.
Stefon Harris is one of the most accomplished vibraphonists in the jazz world today. He has led and been? involved with hundreds of albums, and toured across the world. Just because you are apparently completely ignorant of his music doesn’t mean he’s unsuccessful.
Yeah cuz, like, they can’t get on teh internets anyhow else, and they jsut using tEds fro getting on YourTubes? an stuf lolz cuz ya, they suxx0rz and are nto smrt. like ur mom. u = pwnt
“These hippies just want to be on YouTube under a powerful name (TED). My guess is this: They havn’t really hit any amount of success? elsewhere…”
OH I SEE! You’re projecting! Well then, I don’t think this is the place for that.
Mistakes that MIGHT happen in music have zero relevance to financial mistakes. Trying to draw some imaginary? line between financial mistakes and jazz mistakes is really stretching it don’t you think? Just agree that this “talk” sucks. And has no place in TED. These hippies just want to be on YouTube under a powerful name (TED). My guess is this: They havn’t really hit any amount of success elsewhere, invented some correlation between mistakes in their music and the real world.t
I don’t understand how? a talk about mistakes is out of place in a group of finance workers. Do you think they don’t make mistakes?
TURN OFF THE FUCKING? ECHO
Jazz is a metaphor for our universe, our life. It is all random chaos, yet beautiful at the? same time…like this comment…lol O-o jk idk
So is that the normal echo on it? :/ It sounds like? twice as much as necessary. :/
Jamire Williams? is a monster
check out Steve Nelson (Dave Holland Quintet) and also? Milt Jackson (The Modern Jazz Quarter), Gary Burton too. There are many you’ll like them
w.e you do check out Dave Holland Quintet – Lucky Seven . It’s so good i call in sick for work hahaha.
I didn’t know? vibraphones were a jazz instrument. It’s a pity we cannot hear the bass.
ok, i gotta say? i didin’t look at jazz like this before, makes sense and the idea sounds well, beautyfull.
love? the way he uses the word palet
terrible mix?
forgive them for they know not what they talk about!!! You know what opinions are? like??!! Every body has ONE!!
freaks? 🙂
i found this quote and i think it’s fits nicely here: The way to discover the undiscovered in performing terms is to immediately reject all situations as you identify them (the cloud of unknowing) – which is to give music a future – (Jamie? Muir)