During a long career based out of D.C., he championed the Great American Songbook, led the house band at Blues Alley and ...

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every musical setting. His death Friday morning just after midnight, silences an ...

Michel Petrucciani: diminuitive French pianist, glass bones disease= no calcium, given toy piano and smashes it, demanding real piano. At the end he was up there with Keith Jarrett or anybody else at ...

Since its invention in 1721, the piano has had an unparalleled influence on the evolution of music. Its polyphonic capability made it an instant hit with classical composers, resulting in it becoming ...

This week we check out five great piano players from the jazz arena. I love jazz piano—it combines the best of creative improvisation, chord substitutions, and artistic brilliance. With 88 keys, a ...

Piano solos and jazz ensembles. Previously released material. Oscar Peterson; Earl Hines; Meade Lewis; Jelly Roll Morton; Albert Ammons; Pete Johnson; Fats Waller; Art Tatum; Jess Stacy; Erroll Garner ...

Jazz pianist Elliot Steger and his Trio have a date early next month at the Parish Center for the Arts in Westford. Steger, a ...

It has been three years since jazz pianist Emmet Cohen performed in Boone as a part of the High Country Jazz Festival. As he ...

Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

Lynne Arriale is hoping to see something unusual when she performs Saturday evening in Jacksonville — familiar faces in the crowd. Arriale is a jazz pianist who has played on stages around the world ...

Even among the greatest jazz albums, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue stands apart. It is the one jazz album everyone has heard of, ...