Improvisation is common in many types of music, but is mainly expressed in jazz. The songs that all jazz soloists should be familiar with are called standards. These songs are not usually practiced collectively as they are so well known. A player can expect to build his own solo jazz part upon a standard usually. [...]
This event, Brenda Carol Renaissance Jazz Fair, seems to be taking the neighbourhood by storm! Believe it or not, my neighbour told me! Once again I found out about this near by extravaganza by leafing through my bi-weekly newspaper called the Mirror! The only thing was I found it this Sunday, about 2 weeks after [...]
Rebel Wheel at this years Nuance 2008 was like the icing on a perfectly made musical cake! Once again, real nice line up there Wilton!
This Ottawa band played with so much feel and expression that night. Their sound was great and their approach to music showed a level of writing that I have not seen [...]
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