The group is starting to sound like a band. We played the best variation of Minority so far, by heart, […]

We had a fantastic class, and all the students are making great progress. Today we worked on a new tune […]

Today is my first sub for Mark Sherman (he’s on tour in Europe), has been a pleasure to work and […]

The last month has been a productive one in the combo. We have had a variety of different chairs not […]

I had a sweet time on the road in March and so great to return to running the The Jazz […]

There are portions of various Hal Galper masterclasses on Youtube in which he discusses various aspects of jazz improvisation. I […]

Want to understand rhythm changes and some useful advice, with examples, about how to improvise on them? Check this out. […]

Today our warm up was in the Mingus blues composition called” Noddin Your Head Blues.” It’s a slow blues using […]

When I showed up to class we had a violinists and a new pianist. The pianist Bob told us he […]

Hi! I wanna share with you an interview that I had with journalist Brent Black from Critical Jazz. I think […]

There’s a good discussion about chord subs on this tune on website all about jazz, including this contrefact  (new melody) […]

Back to some warmups involving the modes in major and scoped out the locrian natural 2, 6th mode of melodic […]