
The Walking Bass Line Primer—Part One
A walking bass line, it’s one of the signature sounds in jazz. It’s even safe to say improvising walking bass lines iare among the skills
A walking bass line, it’s one of the signature sounds in jazz. It’s even safe to say improvising walking bass lines iare among the skills
The latest news from PolishookPiano. Said news includes a link to There is something. It also includes suggestions about how to improvise with a simple scale—it is so simple to improvise with a simple scale—but, yet, it’s not. The news also includes a short explanation about different kinds of ivory.
From experience, that is, from improvising to learn, we get the lesson, which is, knowing how to improvise. Therefore …. let’s get the experience! We’ll pick up the lessons later! And we will pick them up!.
Piano improvisation! From 21 to 23 September, I’ll be giving a weekend jazz improvisation course at Finchcocks in Kent. There’s one seat left. But it’s
The title of this post, it’s a question often asked. Sometimes it’s from those who want to improvise. Sometimes it’s a curiosity query about the
There’s a special event coming up that I’d like to introduce—I’m participating in it as the course leader. The event is a workshop on improvisation at
Art is where we find it? Art is what we make it? I find those to be fraught questions (My new word: fraught). So, for
PIanos, jazz, and otherwise: I have a solo piano concert Wednesday, 23 January. Meanwhile, Janet’s meeting with her collaborators. Our perch: we’re in Hong Kong
As the title says, we arrived uneventfully, if that’s an applicable word, on Monday. In other words, we’re here in Shanghai. We’ve since registered at
An interview (by Mark Polishook) with the great jazz pianist and teacher Harold Danko.
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