Musical improvisation is often described as a conversation. A universal language. Musicians trading back and forth seem to be having a blast, which, on occasion, for players and for listeners alike, ...

Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is one of my desert island, all-time favorite records. I have the album cover for Sketches of Spain framed on my bedroom wall. I played baritone saxophone in my high school ...

Sitting down to talk with Jack Mouse and Janice Borla about their latest project is much like attending one of their jazz concerts: You never exactly know where you are headed, but it’s fun trying to ...

Formal composition is not intuitively an important component of jazz, whose art is based on improvisation and freedom from a set musical form. But some of the most innovative jazz musicians have taken ...

Jazz improvisations are more than just artful upwellings of inspiration and creativity. A saxophone solo, a drum break, and a sinuous bass line may transport audience members, but these musical ...

Ajay Heble receives funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Office of the Vice-President (Research) at the University of Guelph. IF 2020 received funding from the ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

Skilled improvisers were better than musicians with limited improvisational experience at distinguishing between chords that can be used interchangeably in a piece of music and those that cannot, a ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...

If you’ve ever taken a music class, you’ve probably encountered the old cliché that music is a “universal language.” The author of the phrase, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1 perhaps meant that music is ...