For many guitarists, one of the major draws to learning jazz and jazz blues is the richness and beauty of the chord work: a tapestry of stunning voicings and extensions that brings a whole new level ...

San Jose Jazz’s music festivals are great, but they really just pay the bills for the nonprofit’s education programs. And one of those, Progressions, has made a serious leap forward this year to ...

Limitless: Vertigo Jazz Project pushes the limits of jazz to the breaking point. As the first musical bars sing out across the hall, the crowd stops in their tracks, ears prick up and the 1-2-3 ...

The ii-V-I has been referred to as a chord progression, a turnaround, and a cadence depending on the circumstances it is used. It is most known as the jazz progression as it is the backbone of many ...

The derivation of chordscales for minor ii-V-i progressions is less straightforward than with major ii-V-Is. Each minor key has three scales whereas each major key has just one. In this lesson, watch ...

Guitar skills: When it comes to chord progressions, you don’t have to break new ground to write great songs. In fact, some basic chord progressions have been used repeatedly in hundreds of pop and ...

When the blues is played in a jazz context the chord progression is more sophisticated in the number and types of chords used. In addition to the basic I, IV, V chords, jazz blues incorporates major ...

Here's a slab of guitar heaven for axe freaks and fans of jazz evolution at its most accessible. Some periods are a tad underrepresented: the 1930s only get a dozen cuts out of almost 70 numbers. And ...