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Suddenly, a style of music rises that actually turns the ear and catches people's imagination. Like jazz, if it were as popular as today, jazz noir is an atmospheric variation on jazz. With its haunting melodies, intimate vocals, and cinematic influence, it is no...

Jazz is much more than music; rather, it is an experience and a dialogue between performer and audience. Swelling from the live jazz performances, the studio albums offer just clipped songs. The real pulse of jazz comes from these performances in front of a live...

Jazz is an expressive art; it grows. From jam-packed smoky clubs in the 1940s, it has matured into festival stages worldwide. Today, the iPhone generation (Gen Z refers most commonly to them) is injecting jazz with a fresh force. Employing TikTok, nostalgia, and...

All the energy coursing through you as you perform live is bewitching. At this moment, an audience awaits a note; this kind of excitement is unique. Many of history's best female jazz vocalists took a paradigm from live performance into their recording sessions....

Jazz is so much more than a type of music; it's an attitude and mindset, the quiet friend that is always by for life's ups and downs. If you find a good selection, either to relax after work, or to mark the start of an exciting evening, then there is also a hexagonal...

Introduction Jazz has always been more than just a genre, it's a conversation, a feeling, and for many people mystery. At the heart of this mystery lies jazz improvisation, a musical language spoken by musicians on stage in real time. One may at first think find it...

Although the borders between jazz and classical music might look well defined, some of the greatest jazz musicians in history have played so freely, so defensively, as to create inspired work that exists somewhere in between. Indeed, the rich history of jazz that’s...

For years, jazz had the epithet of being “timeless,” a term not unflattering but sometimes interpreted as a way of minoritizing it as a music of yesteryear rather than music of now. But a new generation of listeners is lending jazz new life today. The jazz revival...

The rhythm and harmony must attain the jazziness of the music. Unlike the rest of the other music types, the new jazz releases in 2025 give you expressive freedom and individual context, both through instrument performance and with words. For a jazz singer, it is both...

For centuries, jazz has held to the principles of creativity, spontaneity and self-renewal. We enter 2025: With its dynamic energy in mind, jazz education must now also take on such qualities. Traditional methods provide the groundwork, but in today's world, education...

Jazz isn’t something you just listen to, it’s something that listens to you, it’s a living, breathing art form that speaks your life. Embedded within history and culture the fundamental components of Jazz has shaped the sound of music across the globe. Jazz is a...

Jazz has long been one of America’s greatest cultural exports. Just the same, it’s longtime innovation, emotional depth, and sophisticated musicality has made it a lasting influence over innumerable genres — most particularly, today’s Pop and R&B. These modern...