This song is made with the help of a digital work station. Thank you, jimrsbjorklund, for your 120 bpm drums base! I've picked several drums and woodwind notes (thank you freesound!), then modifying ...

It’s bossa nova and samba, but so much more — funky, soulful and esoteric. Listen to these songs chosen by Joyce Moreno, Marcos Valle, Amaro Freitas and more lovers of Brazilian rhythms. Credit ...

"I was looking for songs that were vocal-driven songs that might have been called ballads, or just in general, have very strong, singable melodies," Hertzog said. "In the jazz tradition, what made a ...

The relationship between the secular Christmas music that emerged in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s, and jazz is that both drew heavily from the same source—the Broadway songbook—for the same ...

As a jazz musician and assistant professor of guitar at the University of Arkansas, Jake Hertzog's work often requires extensive scholarly research. However, when looking for the roots of Ozark folk ...