A Broken Piano, An Exhausted Pianist, and the Album That Changed Jazz

For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith ...
Jazz

Miles Davis' Influence On Jazz Piano, Jazz Composition, And Jazz Leadership

Miles Davis is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of jazz music. Over the course of his career, he had a significant impact on jazz piano, jazz composition, and jazz ...
Capital Public Radio

Marian McPartland On Piano Jazz, Part Two

Part two begins with Costello singing "P.S. I Love You," with Pete Malinverni on the piano. "That song describes the way your listeners must feel about this show you've hosted for over 30 years," ...
The Lantern

OSU student turns Union into jazz piano lounge

Tucked away by a stairwell on the second floor of the Ohio Union is a grand piano. On most afternoons, Dan Shaw can be spotted playing slow jazz numbers that belong in a cocktail lounge instead of a ...
OPB

Ahmad Jamal, measured maestro of the jazz piano, passes on at 92

For most jazz performers, a song is part of a performance. For Ahmad Jamal, each song was a performance. Over the course of a remarkable eight-decade career, Jamal, who passed away Sunday at the age ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Marilyn Crispell On Piano Jazz

The pianist plays free jazz with an evocative and disciplined style. Hear her solo on her composition "Fragments." Marilyn Crispell On Piano Jazz Critics hail pianist Marilyn Crispell as a "luminous ...
WGBH

After 10 years at the Mad Monkfish, jazz pianist Yoko Miwa is still going strong

Yoko Miwa is a fixture in the Boston jazz scene. She’s a piano professor at Berklee, an internationally acclaimed touring artist, and she’s held down a Friday night residency at the Mad Monkfish in ...
Dallas Observer

The Dallas Jazz Piano Society Plays a Key Role as a Nonprofit for Youth

While there’s plenty of bad news plaguing the world, the Dallas Jazz Piano Society offers a glimmer of positivity to North Texas jazz lovers of all ages. What started out more than a decade ago as a ...

Jack DeJohnette, dynamic and instantly recognizable jazz drummer, dies at 83

Jack DeJohnette, one of the most daring and dynamic jazz drummers of the last 60 years, with a loose-limbed yet exacting beat ...
People

Lady Gaga Dedicates 'Jazz & Piano' Residency Performance to the Late Tony Bennett: 'He'll Never Be Gone'

"This whole show was for Tony," said Gaga at her Las Vegas residency of jazz classics on Thursday, shouting out his widow Susan Benedetto Lester Cohen/WireImage Lady Gaga is continuing to pay tribute ...
NPR

Don Byron On Piano Jazz

Pulitzer Prize finalist and 2007 Guggenheim Fellow Don Byron is a prodigious multi-instrumentalist and composer. One of the most inventive and compelling musicians of his generation, he is credited ...