Inversions are essential for jazz players, virtuoso cats such as Martin Tyler, but they are super-useful for any player ...

“Giant Steps” is a landmark in jazz harmony and improvisation. Coltrane’s mastery of complex chord progressions and his lightning-fast “sheets of sound” approach reached their apex on this album.

Throughout its history jazz has been in fashion and out of it – but it’s never gone away. Jazz is at its heart Black American music, but it has spawned sub-genres the world over from Nordic jazz to ...