Join me for a 30-minute deep dive into one of jazz’s most essential progressions—the ii-V in Bb. This session focuses on developing phrasing, rhythmic variation, and fluid movement through the changes ...

Brother of acclaimed guitarist Syl Johnson, the late Jimmy Johnson was a singular player who was a mainstay of his city's ...

One of the latter, “There’s a Mingus Amonkus,” was his take on how it ... All Stars are made for Jazz Fest and vice versa. Featuring David, Jamal, and Ryan Batiste, Chantz Powell, and several others, ...

Rather, his music ... jazz-forward arm of the jam band world that followed. In New Orleans, KDTU’s extended musical family includes Ivan Neville, and keep an ear peeled for the band’s electric ...

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In our Inside Look stories, The State's journalists take you inside ... Rickenmann shops for music at Papa Jazz Record Shoppe on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. The Five Points record shop carries ...

So his challenge was to try to find other places to take the music ... as a lead sheet. I’ll just pick up one of them. I try to play it on the piano, and sometimes it won’t quite make sense. I’ll pick ...

By Giovanni Russonello “Big band music” isn’t ... bands make you think of is “jazz hands” and flappers and early black-and-white films, let’s take five minutes to change that.

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Venezuelan Jazz singer and songwriter Raquel Cepeda presents “Take 5: Jazz, Venezuelan Style”, a concert to showcase the richness and beauty of Venezuelan music, often expressed non-binary ...

Finding sheet music ... Today, most jazz musicians learn the standards — Thelonious Monk’s “Ruby, My Dear,” for example, or Duke Ellington’s “Five O’Clock Drag” — via lead ...