Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...

The history of the jazz piano starts in 1899. By my count, 20 pianists changed the direction of jazz over the course of 75 years. Here are 20 sample tracks in chronological order of those pianists.

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In Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium, Herbie Hancock will perform with a hugely impressive slate of musicians, including trumpeter ...

Chick Corea, one of the most versatile and influential jazz pianists of his generation, who helped develop the electronic fusion style of music with Miles Davis and later with his 1970s group Return ...

Eunice Kathleen Waymon was not a singer. Her stage persona, Nina Simone, was. Born on February 21, 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, the young and gifted Eunice was interested only in becoming a ...

Lovers of classical/ jazz music are in for a rare treat with the debut performance of Variations on Cantaloupe Island to be held on Sunday 12 October at the Shed & Silo in Benoni. In another first, ...