For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith ...

Jack DeJohnette, one of the most daring and dynamic jazz drummers of the last 60 years, with a loose-limbed yet exacting beat ...

Burnt Weeny Sandwich’ 1970 was a red-letter year for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. After five albums on the Verve ...

The isolation album has sprung up as a new genre practically overnight—an unfortunate if unavoidable development in the season of Covid-19. If Diogo Vida is one among many in that regard, at least ...

It might seem surprising in the post-techie 2020s, but San Francisco was once a pretty good place to be in an indie rock band. Swell was one of a crop of Bay Area groups in the 1990s making slow, ...

Jazz piano legend Ahmad Jamal has died at the age of 92. The pioneering musician, who was known for his minimalistic playing and compositions that explored space, time and dynamics, passed away at his ...

You don’t need a full band to bring a jazz standard to life, just three key techniques. In this video, I’ll show you how to take Bluesette and arrange it for solo piano using a walking bass line, the ...

Vera Brandes on Köln 75 article by Leo Sidran, published on October 24, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Radio & Podcasts articles ...

In a recent study at Johns Hopkins, jazz musicians improvised with each other while sitting in MRI machines. No doubt many of them were used to playing in tight spaces, but this was, all the same, odd ...

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 ...

If your image of piano-bass duos is mellow, lounge-y standards, then Mehldau and McBride’s La Jolla outing offered some sharp ...