Pairing Charlie Parker with strings began as an accident but quickly became an artistic stroke of genius. By combining bebop and mood music, producer Norman Granz stumbled upon a jazz-classical format ...

Stella by Starlight: An harmonic analysis by Jon Dalton. Stella, as she is affectionately known is one of the greatest standards in the real book. It is also one of the trickiest tunes to truly master ...

PANAMA CITY — The piano jazz trio has been a mainstay of jazz for many years, according to Larry Fletcher with the Gulf Jazz Society. “Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Vince Guaraldi, Ahmad Jamal, Lennie ...