Tag: JAZZ

If you ask today's casual jazz listener to name some of history's transformative musicians, they'll probably rattle off names like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington or Charlie Parker, before getting around to Dizzy Gillespie. Google, however, certainly hasn't forgotten the legendary jazz trumpeter, and, in honor of what would've been his 93rd birthday, unveiled a dizzyingly colorful homepage ...

Jamming is a cornerstone of pure jazz, and one of the things that separates it from other musical genres. There's something uniquely human about a group of individual musicians taking a simple melody and bending it and twisting it into some conch shell of sound that, however complex, somehow works. Some robotics students in Japan, though, have developed a robot that could someday recreate such ...