Hard Bop: How Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Brought Soul Back to Bebop
Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that emerged in the mid-1950s as a deliberate intensification of bebop, fusing the harmonic complexity…
Jazz Education
Cool Jazz: The Complete Guide to the Sound That Cooled Jazz Down
Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz that emerged in the United States between the late 1940s and early 1950s, characterized by melodic restraint, lighter tonal colors, ... Read…
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20 Popular Jazz Artists Today: The Modern Voices Defining the Genre
The most popular jazz artists today are defined by their ability to bridge jazz’s improvisational tradition with the sounds of hip-hop, global…
The 25 Greatest Jazz Artists of All Time, Ranked
The greatest jazz artists of all time are the musicians whose recordings, compositions, and improvisational innovations permanently altered the language of jazz…
What to Wear to a Jazz Club: A Practical Guide for First-Timers
A jazz club is a live music venue where smart-casual attire is the widely accepted standard, meaning collared shirts and neat trousers…
Jazz Guitar Chords: The Complete Guide to Voicings, Progressions, and Theory
Jazz guitar chords are extended harmonies, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths, built on guitar-specific voicings that prioritize the guide tones (3rd and…
Jazz Guitar: A Complete Guide to the Music, the Players, and the Instruments
Jazz guitar is a style of guitar playing, and a family of instruments, central to jazz music from the 1920s to the…
The 30 Greatest Jazz Songs of All Time, Ranked by Our Critics
The 30 greatest jazz songs of all time, ranked — from Armstrong's "West End Blues" to Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" — with…
The 25 Best Duke Ellington Songs Every Jazz Listener Should Know
The 25 Best Duke Ellington Songs Every Jazz Listener Should Know Duke Ellington songs form the largest single body of work in…
Modal Jazz: How Miles Davis Replaced Chord Changes With Scales
Modal jazz is a style of jazz improvisation, originating between 1958 and the mid-1960s, in which musicians improvise over static or slowly-changing…
Jazz History
Jazz in the 1920s: How the Jazz Age Shaped American Culture
Jazz music in the 1920s was the defining American soundtrack of the decade, a genre born from African American musical traditions in New Orleans that, by 1920, had ... Read more
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