Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether personality characteristics associated with creativity in other samples of creative adults would distinguish a group of professional jazz musicians, selected for excellence of improvisational ability, from a group of professional symphonic musicians. A second purpose was to determine whether such differences found between these professional groups would also characterize groups of adolescent jazz and symphonic music students. In this regard, 60 male professional musicians (30 jazz and 30 symphonic) and 60 male student musicians (30 jazz and 30 symphonic) were asked to respond to items of the Adjective Check List (ACL). The ACL failed to distinguish between the jazz and symphonic players at every level of analysis—from two specific creativity scales, through profile analysis, and on down to the item level. These findings raise questions about the generalizability of the ACL creativity scales.
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