Bends, embellishments, arpeggios and more – from Charlie Christian to BB King and George Benson, how to unlock the genius of the jazz and blues icons ...

The Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars explore the trumpeter’s great repository of musical masterpieces from May 23–25 at the Blue Note jazz club.

No Jazz Messengers, no Blue Note. It’s like that. When one thinks of the careers that were born from the Messengers (or Art Blakey’s 1954 Quintet) and who recorded for the label, during or ...

in jazz these notes are swung, meaning the downbeats ... But since the 1980s, some scientists and music scholars have claimed that the swing feel is actually created by tiny timing deviations ...