Why YOU should consider attending an Improvisation course at Jackdaws!!!!!!!
Improvisation at the piano, what does it feel like? Actually, do we feel improvisation in the same way we experience inspiration? Or do we improvise based on what we already know? For example fit this chord to that scale and vice versa. Those are all reasonable...
Shanghai Journal #3: A piano arrives
Morning in Shanghai at 10am, 30 January. As arranged, two gentleman with a Yamaha U1—a black upright piano—knocked on my door. They’re the pianos movers. They weren’t huge. They didn’t look all that strong. But that’s often how it is with piano...
Mark Polishook, currently based in Leicester in the UK, is known internationally as a jazz pianist and a composer. He is a former director of the music composition and theory programs at Central Washington University in the United States.
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