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 […]
Category: terms
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 […]
Drumming/jazz glossary roundup
Here I have briefly reviewed a selection of drumming and related glossaries from around the web. Writing definitions requires a special type of mind and writing skill, and is a pretty tedious, thankless task, so […]