On Sonny Fortune’s 1976 jazz album “Infinity,” DownBeat magazine singled out one performer’s “warm trumpet,” thus earning national and international recognition for the musician. The trumpet player ...

BERLIN — Seven of Connecticut's top blues acts will play on the same stage today in the 13th annual Connecticut Blues Society Solo/Duo Blues Challenge at the Pine Loft Cafe. Solo and duo blues music ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images In this lesson, I’d like to discuss playing over what’s known as a I - VI - ...

They are 12 seconds that changed the course of jazz—the opening of Louis Armstrong’s 1928 trumpet solo on “West End Blues.” Its strutting four-note beginning leads to a flashy climax before ebbing ...

Australian fusion guitarist Frank Gambale plays a 12 bar blues solo on the video. We transcribe and analyse it below. Bars 1-3: Frank begins simply with B minor blues scale (B D E F F# A), but in bar ...

The minor pentatonic scale is a fantastic scale to jam over a 12-bar blues with, but by adding a few more notes you can infuse your blues with the slick sounds of virtuoso blues-meisters such as Joe ...

The post features a video that includes footage of Slash playing guitar in a studio, along with clips of a reel-to-reel tape player and other recording equipment. “I’m a rock guitar player that’s ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few musicians have reshaped the sound of modern music as profoundly as Miles Davis. As a visionary ...