John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things isn’t just a jazz standard—it’s a complete transformation of a Broadway classic. This ...

For years, modal jazz, pioneered by Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has been considered too "learned" or "aged" for a following on the fringes of the form to develop. Now, discover songs that show ...

“Modal jazz,” which means working with a scale or sequence of scales as opposed to conventional cycles of chords, is a ...

In January 1965, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock received a call from a Hollywood jingle agency. Its client, Yardley, needed background music for a TV commercial and wanted a trio playing something ...

James Kaplan's triple biography weaves together '3 Shades of Blue' in the backstories of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans at the height of jazz's cultural sway.

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In jazz, almost everyone adopted modal thinking, not just for obviously modal themes like “So What” but for everything else besides. Almost overnight, the sixth chord became passé, ...

It's not modal jazz, its not free jazz, it's even in 4/4 time, but it's essential. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book Verve A must have for every jazz fan: Ella singing the ...