Free Jazz Music: Breaking Boundaries Through Pure Expression
I still remember the first time I heard Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz. I was a conservatory student, comfortable with bebop […]
Evolution of Jazz: From Roots to Modern Expressions
A trumpet’s cry echoes through New Orleans streets in 1910. Fast forward to today: a producer layers saxophone samples over […]
Latin Jazz: Where Jazz Meets the Rhythms of the Caribbean and Brazil
The first time I heard a live Latin jazz band in New York, I knew I’d heard something like it […]
What Is Funk Music: Origins, Style, and Influence
I’ll never forget the first time I heard “Cold Sweat” blast through my neighbor’s speakers in 1967. I was supposed […]
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 […]
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 […]