Odd Times: Strategies to Improve Your 7/4 Playing
In my first odd meter post, I talked about some of the ways you can approach learning how to play…
Parrish Café
First listed in the Green Book in 1938, the Parrish Café was located in North Philly. Empress of the Blues…
Tonally Lush, Warm, and Wide – Music from Roxy Coss
A command of tone, key, breath and flow defines saxophone musician Roxy Coss. A thick yet easy bebop lassos the…
Tonally Lush, Warm, and Wide – Music from Roxy Coss
A command of tone, key, breath and flow defines saxophone musician Roxy Coss. A thick yet easy bebop lassos the…
Tonally Lush, Warm, and Wide – Music from Roxy Coss
A command of tone, key, breath and flow defines saxophone musician Roxy Coss. A thick yet easy bebop lassos the…
How Teaching Music Has Made Me a Better Musician
I have a very vivid memory from when I was in high school. One of those memories that sticks out…
How to Improvise Over “All of Me”
All of Me was written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simon in 1931 and has subsequently become one of the…
2 Rhythmic Concepts To Improve Your Up-Tempo Playing
Playing up-tempos is one of the big challenges jazz musicians face at some point in their music learning process. The…
3 Mistakes Musicians Make Learning Licks
One of the most important things a jazz musician can do is learn jazz language. Jazz language is simply the…
How to Start Playing Jazz With 3 Easy Steps
I get emails quite often from our readers and podcast listeners who come to Learn Jazz Standards looking for answers.…