A while back I was playing a monthly gig at a jazz club here in New York City, and afterwards the pianist came up...

Two-Hand piano voicings are essential for jazz pianists when comping behind melodists and soloists.  This is an short "encyclopedia" with 1-2 voicings for most...

This PDF will be a BIG help to many jazz pianists and other instrumentalists who want to get better at voicing chords in their left...

I recently did a post about 12 beginning jazz guitar voicings.  I'm following up that post with this article on beginning jazz piano voicings. After...

Left-hand rootless piano voicings were an innovation introduced by numerous piano players in the 1950s.  Rootless left-hand voicings are considered to be essential, must-know voicings by...

Pianists and guitarists need to know a LOT of different voicings in order to function. I suggest working a new voicing into your bag...

Bill Dobbins is an extraordinary jazz pianist with a spectacular ability to convincingly sound like ANY other jazz pianist.  These are two of the...

Probably one of the most prominent characteristics of jazz music is it's rich harmony.  As opposed to many other forms of music, it's full...

The Dorian Minor Scale is a very useful scale; it is arguably the most useful minor scale for jazz musicians.  It is the top scale...

Recently we put up the piano fingerings for the major scales.  It is important for all musicians to familiarize themselves with scales, and learning...