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Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. It is one of the defining elements of jazz. Improvisation is composing on the spot, when a singer or instrumentalist invents melodies and lines over a chord progression played by rhythm section instruments (piano, guitar ...
Blue Giant is a Japanese jazz -themed manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Ishizuka [ ja]. It was serialized in Shogakukan 's Big Comic from May 2013 to August 2016, with its chapters compiled in ten tankōbon volumes. A sequel, titled Blue Giant Supreme was serialized in Big Comic from September 2016 to April 2020, with its ...
In jazz improvisation, outside playing describes approaches where one plays over a scale, mode or chord that is harmonically distant from the given chord. There are several common techniques to playing outside, that include side-stepping or side-slipping, superimposition of Coltrane changes, [1] and polytonality. [2]
Yamaguchi grew up in Tokyo, Japan and decided to study in the U.S. at the age of 26. He became the first Japanese person to complete the master's program in Jazz Performance at City College of New York (M.A. 1999). He has written for Down Beat magazine and Annual Review of Jazz Studies, which is peer reviewed and published by the Institute of ...
Vol. 2: Jazz rhythm and the improvised line (1962) Vol. 3: Swing and early progressive piano styles (1964) Vol. 4: Contemporary piano styles (1965) The Jazz Pianist, in 3 books: Studies in the art and practice of jazz improvisation (1960–61) Styles for the Jazz Pianist, in 3 books (1962–63) Studies in Jazz Harmony (1962) Improvising Jazz ...
Jazzwise Publications Limited was a UK -based specialist jazz music publisher and education company. It was founded in 1984 as a mail-order company promoting jazz and improvisation through catalogues and short courses and workshops for musicians. Jazzwise had three main areas of interest: Jazzwise Education, which runs an annual Summer School ...
List of anime by release date (pre-1939) The short film Namakura Gatana (1917), the oldest extant animated film made for cinemas known to exist. This is a list of anime by release date which covers Japanese animated productions that were made between 1917–1938. Anime in Japan can be traced back to three key figures whom in the early 20th ...
Yahoo! Music. Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September 1961: the fourth of Coleman's six albums for the label. Its title named the then-nascent free jazz movement.