Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube
Skip to YouTube video

Loading player…

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss

A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site.

Recommended next

jazz jazz

Modal jazz music

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Tags

Related to:

An understanding of modal jazz requires knowledge of musical modes. In bebop as well as in hard bop, musicians used chords to provide the background for their solos. A song would start out with a theme, which would introduce the chords used for the solos. These chords would be repeated throughout the whole song, while the soloists would play new, improvised themes over the repeated chord progression. By the 1950s, improvising over chords had become such a dominant part of jazz, that sidemen at recording dates were sometimes given nothing more than a list of chords to play from. Crea… read more
An understanding of modal jazz requires knowledge of musical modes. In bebop as well as in hard bop, musicians used chords to provide the background for their solos. A song would start out with a theme, which would introduce the chords used for the solos. These chords would be repeated throug… read more
An understanding of modal jazz requires knowledge of musical modes. In bebop as well as in hard bop, musicians used chords to provide the background for their solos. A song would start out with a theme, which would introduce the chords used for the solos. These chords would be repeated throughout the whole song, while the soloists would play new, improvised theme… read more

Top Artists

  1. Image for 'Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans'

    Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans

    3,862 listeners

  2. Image for 'Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers'

    Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers

    2,343 listeners

  3. Image for 'The Milt Jackson Quartet'

    The Milt Jackson Quartet

    1,075 listeners

  4. Image for 'Masaru Imada Trio + 1'

    Masaru Imada Trio + 1

    1,073 listeners

  5. Image for 'Lloyd Milller'

    Lloyd Milller

    509 listeners

  6. Image for 'Jeff Resnick'

    Jeff Resnick

    904 listeners

  7. Image for 'Crooner Clan!'

    Crooner Clan!

    584 listeners

  8. Image for 'Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden & Paul Motian'

    Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden & Paul Motian

    235 listeners

  9. Image for 'Stan Getz & Bill Evans'

    Stan Getz & Bill Evans

    14,761 listeners

  10. Image for 'Kamil Piotrowicz Quintet'

    Kamil Piotrowicz Quintet

    134 listeners

More artists

Top Tracks

Rank Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options
1 Play track Spiral John Coltrane
  • Loading
2 Play track In A Silent Way Miles Davis
  • Loading
3 Play track Miss Understanding Kamasi Washington
  • Loading
4 Play track Aisha John Coltrane
  • Loading
5 Play track Shhh / Peaceful Miles Davis
  • Loading
6 Play track Shhh / Peaceful - LP Mix Miles Davis
  • Loading
7 Time Remembered Bill Evans
  • Loading
8 Play track The Sun In September Matthew Halsall
  • Loading
9 Play track Tune Up Miles Davis
  • Loading
10 Play track In a Silent Way - LP Mix Miles Davis
  • Loading

More tracks

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Top Albums

  1. Image for 'Waltz For Debby [Original Jazz Classics Remasters] (OJC Remaster)'

    Waltz For Debby [Original Jazz Classics Remasters] (OJC Remaster)

    Bill Evans Trio 161,589 listeners

    • Loading
  2. Image for 'Giant Steps (60th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) [2020 Remaster]'

    Giant Steps (60th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) [2020 Remaster]

    John Coltrane 53,206 listeners

    • Loading
  3. Image for 'Scenery'

    Scenery

    Ryo Fukui 12,691 listeners

    • Loading
  4. Image for 'Empyrean Isles (Expanded Edition)'

    Empyrean Isles (Expanded Edition)

    Herbie Hancock 59,621 listeners

    • Loading
  5. Image for 'Colour Yes (Special Edition)'

    Colour Yes (Special Edition)

    Matthew Halsall 41,018 listeners

    • Loading

More albums

Related Tags

  1. Image for 'Jazz'

    Jazz

  2. Image for 'Hard bop'

    Hard bop

  3. Image for 'Post-bop'

    Post-bop

  4. Image for 'Fonky jazz'

    Fonky jazz

Shoutbox

Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

API Calls