Over the past dozen years, the New York-based label Relative Pitch has diligently promoted improvised music. Founded by Kevin Reilly and the late Mike Panico, the imprint boasts a roster of artists ...

In baseball it's called "small ball." That might be the best way to describe the improvising duo of saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rainey. Small ball baseball teams win, not by home run ...

In the vast landscape of musical perception, relative pitch stands out as a cornerstone skill that bridges theory and practice. Rather than demanding the precise recognition of a single frequency, ...

Amy Niti shares how she discovered her perfect pitch during a jazz clinic as a teenager. In this video, she explains how her pitch recognition evolved, how it's different from others, and how you ...

Ed Douglas’s article on why some people have perfect pitch (26 February, p 46) makes a number of credible proposals but does not mention mirror neurons. When a musician with perfect pitch hears a note ...