Free jazz versus free improvisation. Are they the same? I submit they are not. Let's take a look at what makes up music. I was taught from the very beginning that music is composed of three parts: 1.

It was nice to finally, after all these years, have the opportunity to sit down with the celebrated jazz pianist Jan Lundgren and talk about what it actually is that we do as jazz musicians when we ...

If you want to get Noe Marmolejo going, just ask him to explain jazz. His first answer is, of course, from the great trumpeter Louis Armstrong: "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know." ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In his autobiography, Miles Davis complained that classical musicians were like robots. He spoke from experience – he’d studied ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

Ajay Heble receives funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Office of the Vice-President (Research) at the University of Guelph. IF 2020 received funding from the ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...

Skilled improvisers were better than musicians with limited improvisational experience at distinguishing between chords that can be used interchangeably in a piece of music and those that cannot, a ...

Contemporary popular culture caricatures jazz as the music of their grandparents, the intelligentsia and elevators. In 2014, Nielsen reported that jazz garners a whopping 1.4% of music consumption in ...

The lessons for the entrepreneur lie in the music of Jazz itself: As a genre of music, spontaneity is the bedrock of Jazz. There is a ruthless and unapologetic pursuit of fresh sounds that may or may ...