I've started studying chess. I've known the rules since I was a kid and have played it for fun over the years, but although always...

Sonny Clark died of a probable heroin overdose in New York City in 1963 when he was only thirty two years old. In the ten years since he...

Donald Fagen released Morph The Cat in 2006. It was the third part of his 'Nightfly' trilogy which followed Kamakiriad in 1993 and the...

Recently, whilst searching for clips of pianist Jimmy Rowles on Youtube I came across the album "Songs and Conversations" by Billie...

On Monday 27th July 1959 Thelonious Monk went into a New York city recording studio to record the music for the film 'Les Liaisons...

It's a well known piece of jazz folklore that Billy Strayhorn wrote Lush Life when he was only sixteen years old. Friends of his recall...

Thelonious Monk's music presents jazz performers with a unique challenge. In my opinion, any convincing performance of a Monk piece...

I recently went through one of my regular phases of listening to loads of Billie Holiday, basically just trying to figure out how on...

I’ve recently been looking into the the axis system, particularly at ways of applying it to improvisation and composition. The system was...