If you love jazz music and always wanted to play in a jazz orchestra, don’t give up your dreams and try out some of the easiest jazz instruments to learn. It is never too late to start learning. But ...

ECM regularly tops lists of the best jazz labels though their full name—Edition of Contemporary Music—would argue for a broader scope of content. A substantial number of their most popular albums, ...

Picture the “default” jazz band we all imagine, then rewind history to see how that lineup was assembled by accident, technology, and American culture. We trace how brass valves, Civil War surplus, ...

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The tenor sax is a jazz instrument. The paradigmatic jazz instrument, if I may thrown in a $50 word. How many tenor sax sonatas or concertos can you think of that feature the tenor as a solo, or even ...

“Being a keyboard player, I play organ — the Hammond B3 or the A100 or the C3 — and you got a piano, a grand piano, an upright piano. You have many different types of pianos … But there’s nothing like ...

Lincoln Center's jazz series and others from around the world come to his shop, which is also working to train the next generation. Across the historic intersection at Kansas City’s 12th and Vine ...

The piano is somehow very often among the first choices for learning an instrument. Probably the transparency of keys (each key stands for one tone only) brings attraction. Yes, learning basic chords ...