The Language Of Jazz

Jazz musicians are famous for their musical conversations — one improvises a few bars and another plays an answer. Now research shows some of the brain's language regions enable that musical back-and-forth much like a spoken conversation.

It gives new meaning to the idea of music as a universal language.

The finding is the latest in the growing field of musical neuroscience: Researchers are using how we play and hear music to illuminate different ways that the brain works. MORE HERE & HERE