Charlie Christian brought electric guitar to the forefront of jazz. Today, when electric guitar is so commonplace with distortion, synthesizers […]

Read Part II.  The time period of 1945-1965 contains four distinct stylistic shifts– bebop, cool jazz, hard bop and the […]

Read Part I . Here are four more important small group jazz performances in recorded history. Lennie Tristano: Wow (Capitol, […]

This entry begins a series on small group performances in jazz history which are milestones for fans, and musicians. Many […]

Very few artists in jazz have had the impact of Charlie “Bird” Parker. “Bird” changed the music dramatically, and like […]

Marc Mommaas is a multifaceted saxophonist, and jazz educator who is free of boundaries; freedom is the very essence of […]

The shift from swing to bebop was heavily changing the jazz landscape, the music ceased popularity with a mainstream audience. […]

Have you ever heard of the Alexander Technique? Maybe a colleague took a class while studying music at a university, […]

Pat Metheny has been one of the greatest musicians in jazz or any other genre over the past 30 plus […]

A little appreciation of February 12th, and not just because it’s Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. On that date in 1964, Miles […]

A seminal figure in the swing to bop movement, Teddy Wilson is known for his lightly swinging, effervescent style; a […]

Between 1973 and 1975, Davis was exploring more directions in which he was trying to bring music back to black […]