In the beginning, there was monophony. Basically just a bunch of monks moaning in monasteries. Oh, there were many other sacred and secular musical forms developing...
The band hands the stage over to the upright half of the rhythm section. This guy looks weird, like he just walked straight off a beach...
Jack of all trades, master of none. ––Elizabethan-era colloquialism Frank Sinatra saunters onstage. He’s got a cigarette in one hand, a glass of bourbon in the...
The drummer propels the band into a hooky neo-blues riff. They go through the related chord changes until reaching the end of the head, when the...
Commercially recorded and released music hasn’t been around for too long––roughly 130 years, give or take a decade––and in the nascent days classical music still reigned....
Of course, there were opera arias and concertos before then, but the 70-year period from roughly 1920 to 1990 was the golden age of the solo....
