A Jazz Music based Team Building Experience
I am at the New York office of Notion, a successful startup from Silicon Valley that focuses on collaboration tools. […]
What North Indian Music Practice Can Teach Jazz Musicians
The improvisational language of jazz and that of Hindustani (North Indian) music share manysimilarities, which we will get to in […]
How Do We Find Music?
How do we find music? Recommendations from friends? Movies? Video games? Algorithm? Music is everywhere. But when 120,000 tracks are […]
My Time with Pat Martino: From Admiration to Friendship and Musical Enlightenment
Life is a beautiful journey, made all the more so by the people we spend our time with. Upon visiting […]
The Distilled Sounds Of Melodic Minor
The melodic minor scale (in its ascending form) is notoriously elusive for intermediate jazz students. It is also indispensable, and […]
New York Jazz Workshop goes to Brazil
We had a fantastic time in Brazil. It was a first for the New York Jazz Workshop to hold a […]
How Arab Funk is Going Global
In Milan’s nightclub “The Tunnel”, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum’s song Alf LeilaWleila is reverberating around an atmosphere […]
Could drill music and jazz coexist?
The Covid-19 pandemic was a watershed for many aspects of our society. Even in music, the pandemic has represented a […]
The New Soundcore Motion Boom Plus
I often receive requests to post links to products and articles and normally turn those down, but last week I […]
Music For Black Pigeons
Filmed over the course of 14 years in various locations such as North America, Europe, and Japan, Black Pigeons captures intimate, improvised moments between pioneers of experimental music at recording spaces in New York, Copenhagen, and Lugano.
Jazz and Latin Music
The rhythmic traditions brought to the Americas by the African diaspora have had an immeasurable impact on the music of […]
Why Should You Own Your Own Music As A Musician?
As a musician you have practiced your craft through courses, workshops and intensives at New York Jazz Workshop. As you […]