Today’s playoff bracket pit the Utah Jazz and the Cleveland Cavs’ 2K squads against each other. Brandon “Hood”…
Music student Nicholas Caleb Goss sees melodies when he watches Super Smash Bros. Melee champion Jose “Mango”…
Thundercat is a bassist who blends video games into everything he does, and whose latest album situates references…
When video games depict a musical performance, they usually half-ass the animations. The drummer waggles his sticks…
Here’s Caleb, doing a stunning drum performance. And it’s not just random drumming. All the different hits are in…
Undertale now has an official jazz album. Like “Determination,” the first Toby-Fox-sanctioned Undertale cover album, “Live at Grillby’s” takes a bunch of Undertale’s most memorable tracks and reimagines them—this time with gorgeous jazz. I bet Greater Dog is secretly a bomb-ass sax player.
Twenty years from now we’ll finda scruffy Ash Ketchum in a dimly-lit bar, nursing a bottle of scotch while this song…
Track: When The Sun Comes Down | Album: Freedom in the Groove | Artist: Joshua Redman
Track: The Birds and the Bees | Album: Jim Hall & Pat Metheny | Artist: Jim Hall & Pat Metheny
Before music becomes music—before it's played by musicians—it's just ink on a page. Some compositions require a…
Today, the world lost one of the greats: Jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck died at the age of 91. Among his…
Jazz trumpet genius Miles Davis had a lot of things going for him. He had a unique musical intelligence, an…
And so with one last musical interlude, Shinichirō Watanabe’s marvelous anime Kids on the Slope concluded its…
I was a band kid in high school. (This is probably not a surprise to readers of Kotaku Melodic.) I tried on a lot of…
Look, I'm under no illusions about jazz music's unpopularity. I grew up playing jazz, went to school to study jazz,…
Here's one for all the fans of latin music—pianist Michel Camilo is a far cry from the mellow melodies of Antonio…
It's widely held that Miles Davis' 1959 album Kind of Blue is the greatest jazz album of all time. I believe that in…