With exuberant Brazilian beats variously smoldering and at full flame, In the Key of Joy (Concord Records ... He has expressed it in pop, jazz, Brazilian and beyond. In 1968 we were treated to his ...

For other jazz musicians ... with both hands in one key -- G for example - and then all of sudden, his right hand might travel up the keyboard and begin playing in B flat, while his left hand ...

The circle of fifths is a deceptively simple diagram that lays out every musical note, key, three-note chord and scale, and charts the relationship between them. A bit like a musical version of the ...

Either way, Monk is on the Mount Rushmore of jazz, and deserves all the reverence he gets for ... which he always wrote in B flat. It begins with a sparse, gentle piano introduction that unspools ...

It was 1978 when I first heard "Phase Dance" on Bay Area jazz station ... of the tunes Paul recorded with PMG (like "The First Circle," etc) with big bands and percussion ensembles and that music is ...

Jazz Night in America host ... The music itself doesn't care who plays it. A B-flat doesn't care who plays it. We want women playing this music, we want people from all walks of life playing ...

Diehard fans will be disappointed by the omission of key characters ... International Jazz Day is about the value of shared experiences, after all. Alto saxophonist Angela Davis lent her ...

Music and the performing arts have not only entertained the masses; they have also served to document history ― from early American music like ragtime and jazz to R&B and hip-hop and several ...