As seen on The EarRelevant Reader, 23 February, 2025 Jazz, by its very nature, is complex, and improvisation is the defining characteristic of jazz. That combination makes the music challenging enough to play, but add the condition…

In anticipation of the 2025 Valentine’s weekend edition of the annual Emory University Jazz Fest, we talked with Gary Motley, the founding director of Emory’s Jazz Studies program, which includes an annual Emory Jazz Fest, held this…

A July 2022 Harvard Medical School report reaffirms what multiple researchers have been saying about music, that it impacts health-related quality of life, that it provides “release, relaxation and rehabilitation,” according to the report. The article cited…