Clark Terry Hamilton College Interview Block 214 (Q6748)

You've got to remember, Mike, excuse me for interjecting this, but you have to remember that years before people who came into this field, years before they knew anything about theory or harmony, composition, counterpoint, etc., they gave in to their feelings. And they were indulging in, for lack of a better term they called it "get off. " This is long before the term "improvisation" was coine ...