As a young impressionable teenager, it was first hearing Mingus’ tribute to Thelonious Monk – Jump...
Theory
A breakthrough for me as a musician, and particularly as a composer, was when I stopped...
One of the eureka moments I had studying music was when I began to understand the...
When I was younger and first getting into learning about harmony I was always fascinated in...
New York in the 1940s saw an explosion of musical creativity: small ensembles playing heavily reharmonized...
Quartal harmony is a system of building chord structures on perfect fourths. It’s been used by...
Who Is Jill Scott? (Words and Sounds Vol. 1) is the platinum album from Neo...
How to write convincing progressions is a question that often comes up with...
I want to quickly have a look at this chord I stumbled across in Charles...
I want to look at two songs. One is the 1959 ballad Naima taken from John Coltrane’s...