Feel and style

Just a brief discussion of the musical terms feel and style. In normal professional musician usage they are often interchangeable, referring to the type of accompaniment to be played by the rhythm section. What kind of a […]

Jazz glossary

Here’s something useful, from A Passion For Jazz: an online glossary of jazz terms. It’s not perfect. The entry for the word jive, for example: Jive: the jargon of hipsters. Jive is a widely used […]

Tempoze

“Phaw, please, it’s tempi, not temPOS.”  In which the blogger once again addresses the voices in his head berating him for minor breaches of correctness in the application of musical terminology.  You may have noticed […]