"'Form' has always come into being in a dialogue between particular 'instances' and the larger body of work, or 'tradi…"

"The term "chorus form" is often used to denote a type of performance - typically in jazz or rhythm 'n' blues, but als…"

"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound con…"

"Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable."

"When I tell people I’m a trumpet soloist, there are three kinds of response I usually get: “Wow, what a great job!”, …"

"I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement."

"You have to let music take you over, put ego aside, be a clean conductor – in the electrical sense."

"A fugue is like a canon, in that it is usually based on one theme which gets played in different voices and different…"

"To give an idea of how extraordinary a six-part fugue is, in the entire Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, containing for…"

"As legendary bands in the scene continued to mature musically and grow away from the genres that they became known fo…"