Stewart Smith salutes the power of Roscoe Mitchell’s collection of solo recordings, a portal to one of the most significant ...

Hall's genius with a guitar had profound implications for the jazz band format, as six-strings replaced piano in the rhythm ...

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Once described by the NZ Life and Leisure magazine as “a man who clearly missed out on the ‘can’t’ gene,” Auckland property developer John Sax is always obliging in sharing his visions, his dreams and ...

Although she knew nothing about the clarinet, she taught him basic music and they used the clarinet book to learn the fingerings and how to play the ... he would also play the alto saxophone. After ...

She started with clarinet and added saxophone as an adult. “That’s pretty common,” she said. “The fingering for both is pretty similar.” A community band is a perfect for Hojnacki and ...

There is a cut from bar 42 to bar 119 in the original. The melody in the flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone and trumpet parts in bars 7-18 and 36-39 can be played by a single instrument, or as many ...

This in-depth masterclass in the fusion icon’s virtuoso style is for moderate to advanced players ready to level up their legato chops, outside playing and minor chord vocabulary ...

Fusion can be a scary word for fans of jazz, or any music. But Takuya Kuroda gives it a good name. As a player, the Kobe-born ...