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Jerome Beatty's work is curiously out of print, which is a shame, because his book Bob Fulton's Amazing Soda Pop Stretcher, with illustrations by the ...

I moved to New York with the idea of becoming a jazz musician. Instead, I wound up playing all different kinds of music for a while, and that included...

I'm pleased to say registration has been brisk for tomorrow's online workshop, "Improvisation: How To Create Great Solos From Scratch." Signup will re...

I do not, as general rule, have the guitar jones. I have had it for a specific instrument now and again, but overall, I've got some good tools, and th...

"Two fings," as the Keith Richards story goes.

First, I'll be offering an online Improvisation Workshop this Saturday, December 12th. It's a two-hour...

I basically missed the 1960s, except for being born and starting kindergarten, but the older of the two kids next door had a band for a while, so for ...

The current Letter goes to press
Post gustatory-type excess
Yet in the fridge, for now at rest
There's pie

Another Youtube lesson's done
This time wi...

In the 1950s, Lou Donaldson was a ferocious bebop alto saxophonist, a Charlie Parker disciple who later explained his devotion in just seven words: "E...