Trumpeter Brad Goode’s polytonal music could have been a mess of formalist jazz equations — instead it was challenging, satisfying and ultimately cohesive. Jazz is for nerds. OK, I said it. But nerds ...

"Polytonal," according to Webster's, denotes "the simultaneous use of two or more musical keys." Denver-based trumpeter and educator Brad Goode makes full use of that technique on The Snake Charmer, ...

Charles Edward Ives is a composer U.S. musicians like to talk about—but seldom get to hear. Much of his diffuse, polytonal music is as difficult as trying to play a Bach fugue on a musical saw—and ...

Are Hymie's Basement the post-hip hop version of Mancunian avant-pop duo My Computer? Then again, the thrashing and polytonal harmonising which begin "All Them Boys" brings to mind a slacker ...

I try to avoid hyperbole. I'm not all that comfortable out on a limb. But I'll still wager you've never come across a big-band album like this. Perhaps you've heard orchestras that use dissonance and ...