The author Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow." The art of improvisation does just that: it makes the soul grow. The soul of the ...

Hiromi's understated solo over this well known baroque keyboard piece is an accessible introduction to improvising with pentatonics. In this lesson, a transcription of her solo from 2010's Place to Be ...

Jazz: “American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often ...

In an era when businesses need to move faster than ever, anticipate “the changes,” and experiment at the fringes, it may be ...

Sitting down to talk with Jack Mouse and Janice Borla about their latest project is much like attending one of their jazz concerts: You never exactly know where you are headed, but it’s fun trying to ...

In the late 1960s and 1970s, with New York City’s socioeconomic scaffolding rickety and near collapse, abandoned industrial spaces in Lower Manhattan were buttressed by artists. Painters, ...

Compared to almost 40 years ago, when I started "learning" jazz, there is an unbelievably HUGE amount of information currently available on the subject. We are deeply indebted to the A,B,C's of jazz ...

When Paul Sills envisioned The Second City, he was inspired by an art form nurtured in Chicago: jazz. In 1959 Sills tried to hire Chicago jazz pianist Fred Kaz. Second City, Sills explained, would ...