20 Albums To Begin A Journey into Jazz
This is for you if you want to a journey into listening to jazz more seriously, or if a friend asks you what jazz records they should listen to in order to appreciate it more fully. It's no good people starting to listen to jazz on the margins; it's like giving a ten year old, Tolstoy's 'War & Peace' to read, chances are they will not make it past the first page. There are some jazz fans that can be awfully snooty about the music they love, they almost try to turn it into a club that refuses to let in new members. So we decided to put together a list of the 20 albums to start your collection with. Every one is a brilliant record and no discerning jazz fan would turn their nose up at any one of them. It includes albums like Miles Davis's, Kind of Blue, Bill Evan's, Waltz For Debby and John Coltrane's, Blue Train; all three consistently make the list of the most important jazz albums ever.
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ArduinoFFT - Open Music Labs Wiki - Vimperator
Arduino FFT Library Notes: For a faster frequency analysis library, check out the FHT! The serial output of the examples is in binary, not ASCII. About the Arduino FFT Library The Arduino FFT library is a fast implementation of a standard FFT algorithm which operates on only real data. Speed characteristics * Note: the lin8 values are approximate, as they vary a small amount due to SCALE factor. Memory characteristics S = SRAM, F = Flash How to Use the FFT Library Files Libraries: Arduino1.05 (fixed PROGMEM for new avr-gcc (thanks forum user kirill9617), added serial example) Arduino FFT library (new) Libraries: Arduino1.0 or Arduino-0022 (should work with both) Arduino FFT library (old) Installing Libraries The above files need to be placed in the libraries folder inside of your Arduino sketch directory. If you are not certain where the libraries folder is located on your computer, try the following: Mac Open up your Arduino sketchbook folder. Implementation Details References
Is jazz entering a new golden age? | Music
If you think you’ve seen more attention devoted to jazz in the past year or so, you’re not wrong. Thanks in part to a spotlight aimed by Kendrick Lamar – whose album To Pimp a Butterfly prominently featured contemporary names like pianist Robert Glasper and saxophonist Kamasi Washington – there’s been an overall renaissance in press coverage for a genre that has, in recent decades, often seemed ignored by the popular media. Jazz’s resurgent profile, however, isn’t merely due to one rapper’s significant influence. David Bowie’s selection of jazz-world veterans for his Blackstar band reminded listeners that jazz elites can be worthy players in the realm of adventurous pop. At the same time, it’s become more common to see contemporary pop stars displaying their jazz bona fides with pride: witness Lady Gaga pairing up with Tony Bennett for an album, or the wealth of producers, DJs and MCs (such as Tyler, the Creator) eager to name-drop their favorite vintage jazz records.
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Mixtape Alpha | Open Music Labs - Vimperator
Making a mixtape was never this much fun! NOTE: We completely sold out of our first run, and are taking pre-orders for a second run. This will most likely be our last run, so check out our Crowd Supply campaign to get your Mixtape Alpha. Mixtape Alpha is the smallest synthesizer we could make without a prescription. It has a stylophone style input for continuous note generation, and 6 buttons for discrete notes. If you want to dig into the guts of this 8-bit synth, check out the wiki page. Mixtape Alpha was done in collaboration with Jie Qi from the High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab.
The 2018 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll
Below are the results of NPR Music's 6th Annual Jazz Critics Poll (my 13th annual, going back to its beginnings in the Village Voice). Wayne Shorter's Emanon was voted Album of the Year, and Cecile McLorin Salvant's The Window Best Vocal. Shorter and Salvant have won these categories previously (thrice in Salvant's case), and Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album marks the second victory in Rara Avis (a catch-all term for reissues, vault discoveries, and the like) for John Coltrane. David Virelles's Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove): Vol. We're trying something different this year. Including my own choices and analysis, and the individual ballots of all 139 participants, there should be enough here to keep you reading — and listening — well into the new year. New Albums 1. 2. The Pulitzer winner here grew a 15-piece ensemble from his Zooid group. 3. 4. Makaya McCraven injects new energy (and post-production artistry) into the jazz vernacular. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The Rest Of The Top 50
Harmonic Progressions | Learning and Loving Music Theory
Kelvin, You actually caught a mistake on the roman numerals! Thanks, I’ll have to fix that. The first and last chords of the progression are not 7th chords. Somehow I inadvertently typed “I7″ on the first chord of all the major keys. (Notice that I didn’t do that for the minor keys.) In the classical tradition, for the sake of stability, the first and last chords of a circle-of-fifths progression are usually triads, not 7th chords. Harmonic Sequences Part 2 In the jazz tradition all chords usually are 7ths, in which case the progression will start and end with 7th chords. Thanks again for your interest and input.
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