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Imagine that you and a group of friends decided to do your own version of a favorite story — one that you know from a book ... improvisation merge in their creativity. One way to follow a jazz ...
The last of the five members of the iconic American rock group, The Band, Garth Hudson’s death is the end of an era.
In his book about Music For Airports ... The basis for this track is an improvisation recorded by Robert Wyatt on piano, Eno on electric piano, and a guitarist and a bassist (I can’t figure out who).
Jeremy Denk is a recent performance played a transcription of what sounded like an improvisation by Ethan Ivanson. It too ...
It began with a solo accordion, playing a simple major chord. That sound spread out in slow waves to embrace a solo voice, then another, and another. A piano joined in tentatively ... Hendrix ...
Before that, I played the piano; I did all that stuff before playing ... players began their journey on their own with nothing but a chord book. But for Verlaine to be attempting to tackle jazz on his ...
Even the very best jazz guitarists rarely ... (a unique system for collective improvisation). As a result, Ulmer created a discursive idiom defined by scratchy chords and jagged melodic shards.
Besides jazz ... minute improvisation that is spread over Sides Two, Three, and Four of the original release. It’s more urgent than “Part I,” driven by propulsive left-hand chords.