El otro en la música que suena: explorando las interacciones de segunda persona en la improvisación de jazz

Interaction between performers is important for jazz improvisation; musicians describe it as a kind of musical conversation (Monson, 1986). Interactive aspects that are particularly special in improvisation are analyzed from the Second Person Perspective (Perez and Gomila, 2021). This theory addresses emotional involvement and direct attributions of intentionality in human interaction. Two groups of improvisers who played a standard together were interviewed. The content of the interviews was analyzed using qualitative analysis methods (Strauss and Corbin, 1998). The categories resulting from the analysis in dialogue with the constructs of the theory help us to understand how improvisers attribute intentions reciprocally during their doing. They show how musicians make their own the other’s ideas, their sound and corporality. Jazz improvisation is constructed in dialogue with the intention of the other, an intention that can be accompanied, reinforced, discussed, even not shared. The own intention takes shape in the encounter with the intention of the other in the music that sounds.