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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 ...

A logistical mix-up had landed him with the wrong piano – a baby ... often spun from a couple of chords, rather than the complex progressions typically found in jazz – to be suspiciously ...

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 ...

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Mehldau’s long-running piano trio has also continually broken new ground with its near-telepathic collective improvisation ... jazz with a passion for blues, Tyner’s main hallmark is using ...

How many of you have heard again and again from people you meet, "Oh, I wish I hadn’t stopped playing"? The truth is that ...

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.

For instrumentalists and singers: A very detailed look at the first 8 bars of the popular standard. Discussion includes a ...