The Locrian mode is the seventh and darkest mode derived from the major scale. Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of ...

But jazz scripture also insists on progress, and in the past few years improvisers have been retracing their steps and composers have been the ones breaking new ground--writing formally ambitious ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth ... These are normally the third, fifth or seventh notes of the scale. Musicians playing jazz sometimes use pentatonic scales and ...