Jazz Theory
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
September 12, 2019
Piano Lessons
Piano Improvisation
There is something
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.
June 10, 2019
Jackdaws
Why YOU should consider attending an Improvisation course at Jackdaws!!!!!!!
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!.
October 6, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Two piano improvisation courses! One goal!
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
September 9, 2018
Jazz Theory
A. How to improvise in jazz or other genres?
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
July 14, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Jazz and improvisation at Finchcocks
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
June 18, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Shanghai Journal #6: You are an artist
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
March 18, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Shanghai Journal #2: Concert in Hong Kong
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
January 22, 2018
Piano Lessons
Shanghai Journal #1: I’m here!
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
January 17, 2018
Piano Improvisation
Jazz Piano Lesson #9: Interview with Harold Danko
An interview (by Mark Polishook) with the great jazz pianist and teacher Harold Danko.
December 11, 2017
Dr Mark Polishook, currently based in Maine in the US (that after a decade in Leicester in the UK), is known internationally as a jazz pianist and a composer. He is a former director of the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University in the United States.
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