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Article: Jazz Ed

Five Killer Comping Strategies

by Phillip A. Haynes
May 12, 2023

A fabulous 'ole collegiate chum, with whom I've produced & drummed with for 40+ years now, recently urged me to share some approaches of accompaniment creativity I'd recently suggested to him. Indeed, these following conceptions can expand most any serious musician's resources significantly: Accompany in the way(s) you always do, yet now insert much more intentional ...

Article: Jazz Primer

10 Fun Facts about Jazz

by Ellie Mckinsey
November 4, 2020

Jazz is one of the most popular music genres today. However, many people don't know what makes a song jazz, rather than blues or pop, nor do they know the genre's long and interesting history. New Orleans is the definitive birthplace of jazz, where Black musicians started combining ragtime, French quadrilles, biguines, brass-band marches, ...

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