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We often think of jazz as this very American thing but it's been a very international music from the very...
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These performances might not represent jazz in its hardcore term, but they were jazzy enough to be f...
People keep saying things like 'music has gone to shit' or 'back in the golden days of music'. While in fact, we're living in the golden age of music....
Duke Ellington doesn't need much introduction. He's one of the biggest names, if not the biggest in the big band era of Jazz, and Jazz in general. With more tha...
Take Five is a jazz standard that has been played by countless musicians over the years, in different styles and interpretations. We compiled a list of Five of Take Five takes for you to enjoy when you take five. *high five*...
This jazz movement was mostly prevailent from the early 1950’s to the mid 1960’s, with its champions being Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, and many more. The legendary jazz label Blue Note Records was the home of hard bop for many years.
So here we go, bop it!...
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A disclaimer before all the Metalheads get all sensitive about metal not being soft. It is. It's actually one of the softest genres of music out th...
This clip from the movie "A Song Was Born" (1948) is a melting pot of almost too many legends, collectively bathing in each other’s melodic genius.
Going thr...
If you’re not very familiar with jazz music I can understand the overwhelming intimidation you might get from the idea of delving deeper into its realms. Structurally, jazz is more complex than the average radio pop anthem because of its improvised nature of multiple melodies and rhythms all working together. Complex time signatures, complex syncopation, complex accents, and seemingly random scales make jazz not the easiest form of music to ‘actively’ listen to, let alone play. I say actively because we all know the stereotypical misconception that jazz is elevator music. Each note counts, yet you find so many of them. Don’t panic. Be patient, it will start to sound more relevant with each listen. But where to start?...
You can’t fight globalization, but you can definitely out-beat it. The Thai girls of Bitchersweet Girls Cypher EP.1 show us exactly how far you can go to make ...
2020 hasn’t been the best for everyone living in Lebanon, to say the least, but it did bring us closer together and it proved to us that we, the people of Leba...
The interviews, research, and development of this piece were done in the week of Monday, July 27, 2020—almost a week before Beirut’s most horrific explosion i...