Amy Niti shares how she discovered her perfect pitch during a jazz clinic as a teenager. In this video, she explains how her ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have developed a unique test for perfect pitch, and have found surprising results.

One of the most puzzling aspects of the brain's faculty for music is perfect or absolute pitch, the ability to identify a note without any reference point. Only a few musicians have the skill. Most ...

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 ...

People with perfect pitch love to tout the fact that they have perfect pitch. That's understandable: Our culture has long placed tremendous amount of value on this "gift," idealizing it as a "rare and ...

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 ...

Inside the science of a skill revered in much of the music world. The kid was standing with his back to the piano, eyes closed, humming intervals quietly to himself while a single note slowly died on ...

Researchers have developed a unique test for perfect pitch, and have found that perfect pitch is apparently much more common in non-musicians than scientists had expected. Researchers at the ...