That empathy and taste also comes from repeatedly playing with each other. It’s a lot easy to anticipate where the song is going if you know what moves your band mates like to employ.
It's a good point, and cuts at a deep tradeoff in musicianship (or, indeed, the labor market) -- general human capital vs. firm-specific human capital. Something I like about jazz is you can spend a couple decades investing in yourself and basically kick ass from then on. But to really shine, you need to have invested in your band too, which is a much riskier proposition.
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That empathy and taste also comes from repeatedly playing with each other. It’s a lot easy to anticipate where the song is going if you know what moves your band mates like to employ.
It's a good point, and cuts at a deep tradeoff in musicianship (or, indeed, the labor market) -- general human capital vs. firm-specific human capital. Something I like about jazz is you can spend a couple decades investing in yourself and basically kick ass from then on. But to really shine, you need to have invested in your band too, which is a much riskier proposition.