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

Here's a collection of the Jazz Night team's favorite holiday music, including timeless classics and a few brand-new bops.

March 27, 2025 • A go-to drummer who has lit the scene ablaze, Tyson shares his top five drum heroes. Plus, the seasoned sideman shares tracks from his trippy debut as a band leader, the paper ...

“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.

After a long week at work, a sophisticated evening with jazz is one of the best ways to wind down. Having been around for years, jazz has become a staple in our lives with its soulful sounds of ...

Featuring glimpses of ragtime and elements of popular dance music, its six movements combine rapid and hard-swinging fast passages with poignant blues-tinged melodies and colourful, plushly ...

They all have DYNAMITE chord progressions. Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel and the Beatles are right up there with Gershwin and Rogers and Hammerstein, in my book. How can you write like them? Watch and see.