Art Tatum: The Art of Jazz Piano is still the only documentary portrait of the greatest jazz pianist ever. Using photographs and some rare footage of Tatum and his contemporaries, the film ...
Dave Brubeck called her "one of the greatest jazz pianists I have ever heard." She digs up an old tune and calls two Monk numbers on this 1992... Jessica Williams On Piano Jazz Pianist and composer ...
Rhapsody in Blue, The Great American Songbook & The Music of McCoy Tyner Launch A Year-Long Celebration of the Rich History and Vibrant Future of Jazz Piano in Chicago March 29 & 30 at PianoForte ...
Austrian-born Friedrich Gulda, 37, enjoys a dual distinction. He is the best classical pianist now playing jazz, and the best jazz pianist now playing classical music. Last week, at the Village ...
Jahari Stampley keeps coming back to one word to describe the past couple months: “crazy.” As in, it’s crazy that the 24-year-old born and raised in Austin made it into the prestigious Herbie Hancock ...
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve ...
LA PHIL presents OSCAR, WITH LOVE (I have never seen such a lineup of so many of the best jazz pianists of our generation, except on the 2016 tribute album to the great Oscar Peterson, arranged by his ...
Pianist Cyrus Chestnut is a technical wizard on the keyboard with a deep understanding of music and a passion for performing. His charm onstage just adds to the fun. Chestnut, who started piano at age ...