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Rapp on Jazz: Steely Dan and jazz

Steely Dan is a perfect example of how jazz shapes rock music. From the 1970s onward, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker infused ...
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Music from life’s soundtrack in major and minor chords

I miss my piano. For decades, a 1944 baby grand piano sat gloriously in the corner of my living room, and now that spot is ...

The nylon-string guitar riff that has taken TikTok by storm – and been covered by John Mayer

Filmed in a field in Southern Indiana, a video of singer/songwriter Hudson Freeman's off-the-cuff performance of his song, If You Know Me, has racked up 1.5 million views, and caught the attention of ...

Jacob Collier taught me how to play his 5-string guitar – but I learned so much more than just new shapes and tunings

Collier never learned on a six-string. Instead, he cut his teeth on a four-string tenor guitar. Then he had the audacity to ...