As Venkateswara Rao plucks the string of the piano with steady hands and pristine hearing, one would hardly imagine he is 90.
In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...
Name that tune? That’s what the owners of Sharp’s Repair Co. hope customers and passers-by will do when they stop by.
A masterful re-interpreter of her own songs, the future-facing singer-songwriter gives a lush, harp-assisted performance of music from across her discography at New York’s famed Blue Note Jazz Club.