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 ...

The Second Annual New York Jazz Piano Festival is a dream come true for all of us who have a deep love for jazz and piano music. We’re thrilled to create a platform that brings together the world’s ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

Genius pianist ELEW brings his 'Rockjazz' style to the Detroit Institute of Arts, reimagining Sting's music in a free concert.

Les McCann was already an established solo artist — a blues-forward jazz pianist in his 30s, with more than two dozen albums to his name — when he had a career-defining moment at the 1969 Montreux ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As I’ve said in a few recent editions of these best-of columns, it’s been a dreadful year for most things but a fine one for music ...

Joe has traveled 4 continents playing and conducting jazz and musical theater. Joe founded the Joe Elefante Big Band in 2001, which was the house band at Cecil's Jazz Club for three years, and was ...

ArcoIris Sandoval was born to play jazz piano. "My dad started me when I was 6 weeks old," Sandoval said during a coffee break near East Grant Road and North Campbell Avenue. Her father would sit at ...

With his songs characterized by melodic dissonance and playful rhythmic and improvisational nature, Thelonious Monk helped define the challenging, almost rebellious, nature of jazz music during the ...

Acclaimed Japanese-born pianist Yoko Miwa returns in performance on Friday, October 4 at Scullers Jazz Club, DoubleTree Suites, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston. Joining Miwa will be bassist Brad ...

For many years, Jim Stack played jazz at venues around the country, and in Charlotte at Cajun Queen restaurant. He was also the full-time pianist for the Charlotte Country Club. Stack is now 95 and ...