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Finding a way to use unusual subdivisions in an effective way in jazz is challenging. Especially if you're using the traditional ja...

There's an artist whose music I believe to be hugely overrated - definitely a case of recognition deserving of wider talent - bu...

It's hard to believe, for me anyway, but this blog is 10 years old today. In that time I've covered a lot of ground musically,...

In this post I’ll show some of the structural underpinning of an improvisation I did on the old standard ‘There Will Never Be Another Yo...

In an era where globalisation is cutting a swathe across everything, including culture, uniqueness is a scarce commodity these days, bot...

I'm guessing that any Australian reading this will know who Andrea Keller is, and others from elsewhere may not. If you don't k...

Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen, NHOP,  passed away in 2005. With that passing the jazz world, and indeed the wider music world, was de...

Jazz Shorts - a series of short posts about various jazz things I wonder how many people reading this know who Jimmy Hopps is? Not m...

The more we know a musician's work, the more fascinating it can be to hear them do something they don't normally do. A musicia...