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

Thelonious Monk ends his 1967 album Straight, No Chaser with the song "We See." This Monk classic quartet remake from the 1950s was also the last piece of jazz music performed at this year's Irving S.

The keyboardist and harpist Alice Coltrane has the disadvantage of bearing the last name of her husband, John Coltrane. He was already world-famous in the mid-sixties, when they married and started ...

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Esteban Castro's parents gave him a toy piano when he was three years old. "I would just kind of gravitate toward it a lot," he recalled. "When I ...

Longtime jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette, who played with greats like Miles Davis and Chick Corea, died on Sunday.

Palm trees and sandy beaches were in the air on a chilly December night as we gathered for NPR's annual A Jazz Piano Christmas concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in ...

The inaugural Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist and Young Jazz Artist awards were presented this past week at a ceremony in New York.

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 ...

Carmel’s trio of jazz musician sculptures is about to become a sextet. The city this week will place all six of the lifelike sculptures, titled “My Sixteen-Year-Old Jazz Dreams,” by the late New ...

Lady Gaga‘s Las Vegas residency promises only two things: Jazz & Piano. But judging from the photos she posted of Thursday’s opening night performance and video that’s surfaced online, it contains so ...