Keyboardist and composer Michael Robinson is well known for performing his genre-defying electronic works on his invention, the Meruvina. He is also an accomplished pianist who has released several ...

Fingers graze a keyboard, poised to play. A trumpet rises to the lips. Drumsticks perch in the air, ready to fall. The improv begins, and this combo of jazz musicians instantly creates a piece of ...

When most people think about musical improvisation, they imagine Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, inventing melodies in smoky jazz clubs. But the act of musical improv isn't a 20th century invention.

The Jazz Piano Improv series kicked off with artistic director Dick Hyman and guest Bill Charlap united for a flowering pastiche of theater songs by Broadway's prolific wonder man, Stephen Sondheim.

In a recent study at Johns Hopkins, jazz musicians improvised with each other while sitting in MRI machines. No doubt many of them were used to playing in tight spaces, but this was, all the same, odd ...

There’s a popular myth that divides people into “left brain” and “right brain” categories, whereby the former are analytical and logical, while the latter are creative and innovative. The reality, of ...

Jazz musicians, almost by definition, seek an active dialogue between the impulsive and the rational. For some, the terms of that negotiation become a central feature of their art. Dan Tepfer is one ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...

In the newly renovated Long Beach City College auditorium on a recent Thursday night, the audience is far from packed. But those in attendance are nodding in time with the tunes coming from on stage.

Scat singing, the sax, and two silver stars of jazz improv piano will please any crowd, any time. And a crowd of 500 people was more than pleased when jazz masters Ellis Marsalis, Marcus Roberts and ...

Robinson's improvisations neither attack nor retreat from the substance of these standards. The first of the albums is Not Like Before. Opening with "42nd Street," Robinson initially embraces the ...