Six piece jazzgrass outfit Hot Brown Smackdown just released a long jam with their new single "Wish I Knew". It's bluegrass ...

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A decade of trailblazing and trauma defined jazz pianist Earl “Bud” Powell’s life prior to recording “Piano Interpretations” ...

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Eventually, he found his answer in front of the piano. Bejar had been ... balladry and getting back into chord progressions,” he says. “I was probably thinking of the only kind of music I really ...

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Proclaimed by Vanity Fair magazine, “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade or so ... often wheeled out when a musician does no more than tweak the chord progression of a ...

By abandoning fixed chord progressions, Coleman and his quartet opened up ... This album finds Ornette Coleman continuing to push the boundaries of free jazz. The absence of a piano allows for more ...

The 1973 album received a rare 10/10 from Pitchfork, who described it as "a jazz-funk masterpiece, a celebration of all that is modern and ancient" Hancock has been playing the piano for almost 80 ...

Using patient instrumental experimentation to fuse noir-jazz with ... of piano flourishes in the introduction glimpse at something more interesting once again, but they’re swiftly interrupted by a ...

each exploring and resolving tension like an inspired chord progression. On his debut album, The Southern Suite, he emerges as a guiding luminary, shining his introspective command as both a pianist ...