Samara Joy and Dee Dee Bridgewater both compete for Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy, discussing how women are finally breaking ...

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Exposed to music at the highest level from an early age, with his grandfather serving as accompanist to cellist Gregor Piatigorski (and later the Dean of the Berkshire Music Center), and his ...

Dave Brubeck called her a great and Mary Lou Williams gave her advice. But the prodigy grew frustrated with jazz, quit and started dismantling her instrument. A superb new reissue showcases her ...

It's hard to believe that Jazz Piano Christmas celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. We were initially stumped on how to celebrate, but as we reminisced about the many pianists we have featured ...

A new piano bar and jazz club is joining Fondren’s entertainment scene this week.Louise’s, a cocktail-forward lounge inspired by the golden age of jazz and classic Hollywood style, will open to the ...

Jazz is attracting a new generation of fans and the EFG London Jazz Festival is here to cater to them with global superstars flying in from all corners. Tomoki Sanders is jetting in from New York with ...

Following past years’ popular “176 Keys” and “Tickle the Ivories” concerts, our dueling pianists, Gay and John, are back for another great evening playing lots of your favorite tunes. It’s all ...

Chuck Mangione, the fedora-sporting flugelhorn and trumpet player whose 1977 smooth jazz hit “Feels So Good” left an indelible mark on American pop culture, has died. In a statement reported by ...

If there’s one genre that rivals country music for the most quintessentially American art form, it’s jazz. And, historically, the genres share a lot more common ground than you might think. One could ...

The Washington Women in Jazz Festival was born out of the necessity for more feminine representation in the genre. The festival’s founder, Amy K. Bormet, is a vocalist and pianist who noticed the lack ...

“The mind is the standard of the man,” said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech he gave at Queens College on May 13, 1965. Sixty years later, the Civil Rights icon will be celebrated at the ...