Welcome to the jazz bass studio at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! Bijoux Barbosa is the jazz bass instructor at our college working with students on sound production and ...

The Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in Jazz and Improvisation is for musicians pursuing careers in jazz, studio recording, and performance in contemporary idioms (popular, world, experimental). The core ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

Fingers graze a keyboard, poised to play. A trumpet rises to the lips. Drumsticks perch in the air, ready to fall. The improv begins, and this combo of jazz musicians instantly creates a piece of ...

Charley Sabatino is a veteran bassist, composer and educator with more than 40 years experience. He plays both upright and electric bass, encompassing a wide range of styles and performs throughout ...

Pioneered in the 1950s by musicians breaking the rules of jazz and composition, free improvisation is still as difficult – and potentially transcendent – as it ever was. A Guardian documentary takes ...

In Derek Bailey's words, improv is "playing without memory." In Britain, in the mid-60s, free improvisation (often just called "improv") developed out of free jazz, eventually becoming a separate and ...

Jazz & Improvisation have been important to the musical landscape of University of Delaware for decades. Consisting of big bands, combos, academic classes, and private lessons, the Jazz program has ...