Musical improvisation is often described as a conversation. A universal language. Musicians trading back and forth seem to be having a blast, which, on occasion, for players and for listeners alike, ...

It was nice to finally, after all these years, have the opportunity to sit down with the celebrated jazz pianist Jan Lundgren and talk about what it actually is that we do as jazz musicians when we ...

Formal composition is not intuitively an important component of jazz, whose art is based on improvisation and freedom from a set musical form. But some of the most innovative jazz musicians have taken ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...

Ajay Heble receives funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Office of the Vice-President (Research) at the University of Guelph. IF 2020 received funding from the ...

Skilled improvisers were better than musicians with limited improvisational experience at distinguishing between chords that can be used interchangeably in a piece of music and those that cannot, a ...

Luminance celebrates the intersection of jazz, classical, and folk repertoire, bringing musical creativity to an unlikely instrument combination. Also sharing the stage, Motoshi Kosako performs ...

When rhythm meets rebellion and tradition dances with improvisation, the result is AlterNation Jazz Festival—a one-of-a-kind ...

Contemporary popular culture caricatures jazz as the music of their grandparents, the intelligentsia and elevators. In 2014, Nielsen reported that jazz garners a whopping 1.4% of music consumption in ...

The lessons for the entrepreneur lie in the music of Jazz itself: As a genre of music, spontaneity is the bedrock of Jazz. There is a ruthless and unapologetic pursuit of fresh sounds that may or may ...