Earth setter 1
A rough mix of Earther Setter One for Steingraeber piano and Haken Continuum (mini)
April 18, 2019
Blog
Musical Design
The magnitude of force
A rough mix from my upcoming CD, a follow-up to It’s About Time, a solo piano recording I released last year. All recordings are and will be available on the iTunes store and Spotify and other purveyors of fine digitised music.
February 18, 2019
Musical Design
The 24 Shapes (in music) and why you should know them
Something endlessly fascinating about JS Bach’s 5th Prelude in the Well Tempered Clavier, you know, this prelude in D major, is the pattern on top of which it’s
February 3, 2019
Boogie Woogie
YABB
Here I introduce YABB (yet another boogie woogie). On a related note, am going to offer 1-day boogie woogie workshop in Leicester, which if I’m
January 9, 2019
Learn to play jazz
OPINIONS FOLLOW … And I’ve addressses this topic before. That said, and relative to opinions, the Mark Levine jazz piano book with it’s notions of
December 25, 2018
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
B. Everything begins somewhere
I’ve written it in a blog post elsewhere, but it’s worth saying again—what Jaki Byard said to me in my first lesson with him at
July 27, 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
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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