Hello everyone! I am highlighting this very young trio (average age 20), which has already been selected among the top 12 out of 250 bands from all over the world, candidates to play on the...
hello everyone, a few days ago, I was browsing at Feltrinelli and, in the music section, I came across 2 texts that I always believed were published and available in English.... while these...
I believe that when talking about true jazz, it is first and foremost necessary not to work on any existing harmonic progression; I believe that true—and I emphasize true—jazz is total impro...
hi everyone, is there any other "crazy person" (besides me) who is going to hear Chilly Gonzales at Villa Reale tonight even in the rain??? http://www.pianocitymilano.it/concerto/912/ In tha...
In a recent interview Jacob Collier talks about negative harmony or mirror harmony, but the examples aren't very clear to me, could you provide some clarification?
Hi friends, I'm taking advantage of a funny herniated disc that has me pinned down here to give an update on my teaching. I am updating the composition/arrangement course and would like to s...
Hello everyone! Happy that there is a section dedicated to jazz, I suggest listening to this classic recorded live in 1964. 2 cds, first and second part! Now, I don't know exactly which one...
Jazz has always and anyway offered me insights and reflections. Alongside art music, I consider it of great utility also for the classical performer. I am sharing two videos with you. Peters...
What will kill jazz? http://www.leoravera.it/2016/05/05/cosa-uccidera-il-jazz/ Is it just me, or can I not tell if this article is serious or not? Quotations (learned or ironic) in jazz have...
Hi! As some of you may know, the sheet music exchange site www.pianofiles.com closed a couple of years ago and was replaced by www.sheeto.com. For a few days now, this site has also been unr...
I report that in April the film dedicated to Miles Davis will be released. Directed by and starring Don Cheadle, and Ewan McGregor is also in the cast (released in the United States on Febru...
Hello everyone. I have often found myself talking, even on this forum, about books for studying jazz piano. Mark Levine's Jazz Piano Book is one of the most important and well-known books; I...
Hi everyone, I would like to know if you can recommend some virtual shops where I can purchase original blues or jazz sheet music, possibly ones that ship here to Italy! In fact, I can't sta...
From the film "Paris Blues" (1961): Paul Newman (Trombone Murray McEachern), Sidney Poitier (Sax, Paul Gonsalves), Louis Armstrong (Trumpet). Music by Duke Ellington performed by his orchest...
I would like to offer my own transcription of this (in my opinion) splendid 3/4 by Keith Jarrett, as a starting point for comments on the piece, Jarrett's improvisational style, or directly...
Good morning everyone! I am passing along this question, which was posed to me during a seminar: on a diminished seventh chord, can the whole-tone/half-tone scale and the half-tone/whole-ton...