You may have heard that jazz guitar players artfully play ‘wrong’ notes. However, if you just play at random frets you’ll probably sound more like a crashed train than Coltrane. A better way to think ...

I will confess — they say it is good for the soul — that I am a jazz fan with many old CDs to prove it. Jazz is that magical product of many musical traditions woven together by the creative genius of ...

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In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...