Read our interview about the saxophonist's new album 'Birdly Serenade.' Plus: the best jazz releases of the month.

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Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings and many points between - to build your musical vocabulary and hone your own voice on the acoustic guitar.

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The pair met in 1967 in Annandale, students at Bard College who began playing with what Fagen called in his memoir “the funky grooves, the jazz chords and the sensibility of the lyrics which seemed to ...

When I consider the past decade in Chicago music, I think about the songs and albums that not only muscled their way into my memory but also deepened my understanding of the place where I live.