The holiday theme for Jazz Piano Christmas this year was definitely for the adventurous among us. Our three performers placed familiar holiday songs inside masterfully crafted clusters of sound and ...

The Palace Theater is the the only Connecticut stop for Krall, who will also make stops in Miami, Memphis, Durham, New ...

The award-winning Murray State University Jazz Ensembles will present their fall campus concerts on Tuesday, Nov. 4 in ...

Incoming Signal; Mount Rakan; 24-7; Sky; Kimnara; Enigma; Encore. With Rhythm Riot, the Italian-based German pianist and composer Christian Pabst presents his latest and now sixth album. Recorded at ...

Robinson's improvisations neither attack nor retreat from the substance of these standards. The first of the albums is Not Like Before. Opening with "42nd Street," Robinson initially embraces the ...

The Keystone Korner was a legendary jazz club in San Francisco between 1972 and 1983, a place where Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Art Blakey and Dexter Gordon recorded important live albums. Owner Todd Barkan ...

Each player in this trio addresses the beat in a spontaneous way, without constant chaos. A casual romp like this session makes for breezy listening. This is FRESH AIR. African American composer and ...

When the makers of “The Peanuts Movie” were ready to record the famous theme song for the 3-D animated adaptation of the beloved Charles M. Schulz comic strip, they turned to a jazz pianist who has ...

There was a lot familiar about the scene on the Florida Theatre stage during Thursday night’s Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition — the shiny Yamaha grand piano sitting center stage, the contestants ...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — all you’ve got to do is stagger your timing. For decades, fans of jazz music have debated why some songs have swing — the characteristic swaying ...