"The difference between the Altered scale and the Diminished scale is the Altered has to move to the relevant tonic as it’s ...

You can’t judge a songwriter by their first hit. That’s certainly true for Dan Wilson, who topped the charts and earned his ...

That’s certainly true for Dan Wilson, who topped the charts and earned his first ... music shop taught me how to play the major-minor 9th chord in the verses. So dissonant!

Fresh Air host Terry Gross lost her husband on April 14. They were together for 47 years. Today, she shares some of Francis with the audience, including the story of how they met and became a couple.

BR Editor Iwan Fox looks at the wide variety of musical inspirations being explored, examined and endorsed in the bids to win ...

From blues and jazz to rock’n’roll and soul ... sprinkling its gooba dust atop the R&B charts for eight weeks – a good reason for including it this rundown of the best Chess Records.

The half-diminished (minor 7♭5) chord is a gem in jazz harmony! In this video, I share a few of my favorite voicings that ...

In the classical world, this practice would usually be called ‘inversions’ of a chord. Briefly, a major or minor chord with ... a third inversion. In the jazz/pop/rock world, we normally ...

If 1974 was one of the weakest years of its decade, then 1975 was arguably the strongest. A lot of great cultural moments happened happened: Stevie Wonder won his first Album of the Year Grammy ...

You may know about Francis from his writing about jazz and popular culture or from ... as an alternative to bebop's dense thickets of chord changes. But this hardly explains the album's hold ...