Originally Posted by Nathan Madsen

Corbin- I think Justin's point (and I don't mean to speak for him) is that today's modern classical performers do not look at cadenzas the same way as they did back when cadenzas were mostly improvised. Sure- some performers today do still improvise their cadenzas but I still don't think that equates to the same about of volume and frequency improv in jazz occurs (particularly in the jazz combo realm).