Miles Davis isn't #Mozart: the brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently.
A musician's brain is different than that of a non-musician. Making music requires a complex interplay of different skills, which is also reflected in more developed brain structures. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig recently found that these possibilities are embedded in a much finer way than previously assumed and even differ depending on the style of the music. They noted that the brain activity of jazz pianists is different from that of classical pianists, even when they play the same piece of music. This can provide insight into the processes that typically take place during music creation and specific to certain styles.
Keith Jarrett, world famous jazz pianist:
“Whether I would ever be interested in a concert where I would play both jazz and classical music? No, that's hilarious. It's like a practically impossible thing. Your system calls for a different circuit for one of these two things. Where non-specialists tend to think that it shouldn't be too difficult for a professional musician to switch between styles of music, such as jazz and classical, it's actually not as easy as one would assume, even for people with decades of experience.”
Different processes in the brain
