For five months, jazz musician Kevin Bales recorded all the notes he played on his keyboard at eleven different live gigs. The recordings weren’t for an album, but for a scientific study into jazz ...

At 33, Jasmine Choi has been called one of the top 10 flutists in history. A child prodigy, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music on a full scholarship at 16, became an assistant principal with ...

My music career was short. I began playing the clarinet in fourth grade with the sweetest band teacher. By eighth grade, I was cringing through band practice with a different instructor -- one who was ...

Music is often described as a language, and it’s equipped with its very own vocabulary. We go back to basics and make a pitch for reading music. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

CARBONDALE – When Steve Kimock arrived in northern California in the mid-’70s, he believed he had found the musical wellspring. San Francisco’s Summer of Love may have been just a hazy memory at the ...

A lot of guitarists want to get that “outside” fusion sound into their lead work – something that twists scales in a new and unexpected direction. But learning how to use scales in that way takes some ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by This composer’s latest work, for Lincoln Center, is in conversation with Robert Schumann’s music and mental health struggles. By Steve Smith “Violent ...

One of the most common phrases concerning music used by musicians and non-musicians alike is "Music is the universal language." But what does that really mean to people? When asked, for the most part ...

What I love about music is the more time you spend immersed in it, the more that stuff goes in, and the more you understand the vocabulary of it “If you have that scale, and that’s the only scale my ...