Direct, precise and no filler — that’s a good way to describe Ron Carter, the tall, eloquent elder statesman of jazz. For many musicologists, he’s considered one of the great virtuosos – if not the ...
Like “Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” an Academy Award-winning film it resembles in many ways, “Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story” is largely a collection of musically ...
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 ...