What is Blues Music? Blues is a type of secular folk music created by African Americans in the early twentieth century, primarily in the South. By the 1960s, the simple but expressive forms of the blues had become one of...
Rye vs. Bourbon Below are their most extensive comparisons, including their aging processes, distillations, and storage conditions. Let’s start with their parallels: Now for the fascinating part–Rye is created from 51 percent natural rye, whereas Bourbon is made from 51...
Do you love modal jazz but can’t explain what it is? Or do you listen to it and wonder if the musician is just trying a note here and there with no progression? During the late 1950s, modal jazz gained...
Roy Hargrove (1969–2018) was one of the top trumpeters of his time and a pioneer of jazz hip-hop fusion. Hargrove was born in Waco, Texas, in 1969 and relocated to Dallas with his family at the age of nine. Hargrove...
The term “jazz” often has a confusing connotation because it can mean anything from big-band jazz to blues or small combo jazz to smooth jazz to Brazilian jazz to hip-hop jazz. But sometimes, these subtypes can be played in combination...
In the past decade, flavored whiskeys have become popular in the USA. It’s difficult to imagine a time when whiskey was all plain. With all due respect to traditional whiskey, modern crafting has given birth to unlimited flavored whiskeys you...