Miniblog Country Music Returning to popular musical genres, today we shall take a brief look at the history and bigger styles of country music. Emerging out of Western American tradition…

Miniblog Modal Jazz Whereas Jazz had always been based on the concept of improvising over a chord sequence that was clearly in a major or minor, or blues-style key, musicians…

Miniblog Jazz Fusion As with many jazz genres, jazz fusion labours under a number of labels, and has spawned a few sub-genres of its own: these include ’fusion’, ‘progressive jazz’,…

Miniblog Latin Jazz Rhythm — and particularly syncopation — has always played an important role in the language of jazz, so it’s not surprising that musicians looked to Afro-Cuban and…

Miniblog Avant Garde Jazz As the 1950s gave way to the swinging 60s some jazz musicians followed their classical music counterparts in trying to break down the most essential elements…