A music blog written by Rich Brown
In tonal harmony, there is a concept of distance between keys. Sometimes we talk about two keys being very closely related to each other. At different times we describe two key centers as being very distant from one another. This is a struggle for language to try to describe the feeling that our ears get... Continue Reading →
When the Beatles first came to America they told everyone they wanted to see Muddy Waters; one reporter asked: "Muddy Waters … Where’s that?" Paul McCartney laughed and said, "Don’t you know who your own famous people are here?" McKinley Morganfield was born in April of 1913. The world knows him a little better by... Continue Reading →
Bird Charlie Parker Yardbird I still remember the first time I heard a recording by Charlie Parker. I was 15 years old and the band director at the school was going to teach us to play “Billie’s Bounce”, or at least the melody of the tune. I don’t know what I thought Jazz was before... Continue Reading →
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