Modal Jazz
Everything published on Viyolens under Modal Jazz — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
Jazz Music Subgenres, Explained
Jazz spans wildly different sounds under one label. Here's what genuinely separates bebop from cool jazz, and where modal and free jazz diverge.
Bebop Subgenres, Explained
Bebop didn't fracture into rival camps. It fanned out into five genuine offshoots, each reacting to a different part of the original sound.
Essential Jazz Music Albums Explained
Forget the hundred-album canon list. Here are six jazz records that actually earned their reputation, worth hearing front to back, no skipping.
The History of Jazz Music
Jazz reinvented its own rules roughly once a decade for the best part of a century. Here's how it actually moved from dance halls to the avant-garde.