Some fear that jazz is recklessly heading for the same dead end that classical music arrived at earlier in this century, with atonality and serialism. And it is true that the composers I am ...

Some notes used in jazz music may be flattened by a semitone. These are normally the third, fifth or seventh notes of the scale. Musicians playing jazz sometimes use pentatonic scales and blues ...

To many, composed music and improvised music seem to be opposites, but in jazz, they merge in a unique fashion. It has been said that the best improvised music sounds composed, and that the best ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

Often a piece of jazz music would start with a main tune ... us in and we’ll take it in turns to improvise, using the blues scales. Ready? One, two, three, four.