Ravita Jazz’s Alice Blue is one of the best, most consistently intriguing and engaging contemporary jazz albums of 2025. O’s Place Magazine calls Ravita: ”One of the finest jazz bassists outside of ...

For the break riff, I used the G minor-blues scale (G-Bb-C-Db-D-F) and a lot of syncopated 16th-note rhythms and rests to help create a funky, powerful-sounding phrase with lots of “kicks.” ...

T-Bone’s songs often featured sophisticated harmony, such as 9th and 13th chords, an emphasis on piano and horn sections, and a laid-back, swinging rhythm. His distinctive blend of blues with ...

Our masterpiece guide to Bach’s ‘Prelude in C major,’ from ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier,’ features a lesson with Lang Lang.

The Piano Quartet also features in the soundtrack for the 2010 film Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese. Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor (1876) Quartet for piano, violin, viola and cello - 1.

For example, setting the key to E and the scale to minor blues will arrange the notes of the E minor blues scale on the keyboard so you can improvise however you feel, knowing that any note you hit ...

A "Veritable Autobiography"? Amy Beach's Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, op. 45 ...

Almost a year to the day after the inaugural Tilles Jazz Festival took flight, the second edition was in full swing. This large-scale event—a collaboration between Tilles Center for the Performing ...

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