J-Tonal

The worst enemy any serious student of music must face and overcome is overwhelm. The sooner one comprehends this debilitating mental state,...

Something happens when you practice a lot. You eventually start to play everything you know all the time. It’s an unconscious, albeit norma...

My new cd - returning - is a collection of original compostions (with one exception) designed to create an atmosphere somewhat meditative...

What I want to talk about in this post is a technical area that is often overlooked - expressive technique. Expressive technique is about c...

One thing that should be clear to any jazz piano student is the lineage of the music, not only harmonically, but particularly as it applies ...

From time to time I like looking over the standard jazz repertoire to see if there is a tune that I can arrange or rearrange. A tune that no...