FeaturesIn This Month's Issue-----------------------------------------Wynton Marsalis - Plantation PolemicsMartin Taylor - There and BackMedeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood - Out of the TubeReviews - Jazz and BeyondFrom the UK's biggest review section-----------------------------------------
Leading Danish jazz bassist Chris Minh Doky is both an in-demand top-level sideman as well as a Platinum selling solo artist, he now releases his latest album The Nomad Diaries out now on Blue Note.
1 Lars Danielsson and Leszek Mozdzer Pasodoble ACT2 [em] [em] II ACT3 Michael Brecker Pilgrimage Heads up/Universal advance4 Erik Truffaz Arkhangelsk Blue Note5 Belmondo/Yusef Lateef Influence B Flat Recordings
A wonderful night from the Jazzwise To the Power of Ten Festival where Ian Carr's incredible band Nucleus were reformed for the second of two recent performances, one at the Sage in Gateshead, this especially fired up with legendary founder member Ian Carr actually present to spur them on.
The man the legend, Courtney Pine, lived up to his status as one the UK biggest and brightest jazz stars as he delivered an incendiary 2-hour set for the Jazzwise To The Power of Ten Festival. See more video highlights of the week including Finn Peters, [em], Polar Bear, Dave Okumu, Nucleus Revisited and Nu Troop...
Lego Bricks is all about making sense of the harmony of the music you're listening to. It's like a kind of 'aural road map', pointing out common blocks of chords (cadences) and in particular, focussing on how these cadences join together to make the music flow in interesting, enjoyable ways.For example, Conrad explains the meaning of the common jazz cadence Am7-D7-G, which appears in the bridge of 'All the Things You Are'. This is followed by F#m7-B7-E, the...
Introducing The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play Along SeriesThe best way to learn music is to play music – and who better to learn from than top professionals such as Cedar Walton (p); Ron Carter (b); Billy Higgins (d). With the Aebersold series the CDs provide the accompaniment and you provide the melody and solos.
New music for the developing jazz ensemble composed and arranged by Dave Tanner
Saxophone Sound. The most important feature of your sax playing is your sound. It is more important than how fast you can play or which scales you know.
What can I do to prepare for the Jazzwise Summer School?
