The researchers also used the newly available Weimer Jazz Database to establish that most swing soloists are in fact deliberately using these microtiming delays.
Theo's team devised a perceptual experiment that would determine if listeners preferred swing with microtiming delays by soloists and what kind of delays they preferred.
The weeping notes of a trumpet saeta, an Easter tradition that once inspired a Miles Davis recording, had to be performed from the soloist's apartment balcony.
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Polidoro: Theo's team devised a perceptual experiment that would determine if listeners preferred swing with microtiming delays by soloists and what kind of delays they preferred.
You do, absolutely. The top soloists - whether that's on the piano, the violin or any other instrument, or singing - they all perform at the Proms. As do very big orchestras.
But she was such a fine musician that the Nazis asked her to give Sunday concerts, in which she was often the soloist and they would last for three hours.
Like any soloist that I love, any jazz musician that I love, if I'm listening to a record and suddenly that soloist comes on, it's like a good friend just walked into the room.
The swing study doesn't surprise Nina — who, by the way, sings and plays several instruments — because we're able to hear and make sense of sounds that are much faster than these soloist delays all the time.