For most jazz performers, a song is part of a performance. For Ahmad Jamal, each song was a performance. Over the course of a remarkable eight-decade career, Jamal, who passed away Sunday at the age ...

New releases from Tyshawn Sorey, Kim Cass, Bill Charlap, Tarbaby, Matthew Shipp, Kris Davis and others are showcasing how a classic format can still feel fresh. By Hank Shteamer Two of the most ...

Bobby Short often called himself a "saloon singer," but the world will remember him as one of the greatest cabaret performers of the 20th century. From the very first season of the show, this Piano ...

For most jazz performers, a song is part of a performance. For Ahmad Jamal, each song was a performance. Over the course of a remarkable eight-decade career, Jamal, who passed away Sunday at the age ...

I had never heard of Nellie Lutcher when she appeared on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz during the mid-1980s, but I was taken with her right away. With her playful vocals and swinging piano, Lutcher ...

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 ...

He was known for his laid-back style and for his influence on, among others, Miles Davis, who once said, “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.” By Eric Grode Ahmad Jamal, whose measured, spare ...

More than fifteen years have passed since the flamboyant jazz pianist Dorothy Donegan died. Sadly, few jazz fans, either then or now, are aware of what enormous orchestral capacity she had at the ...

McCoy Tyner, a pianist and composer viewed by musicians and critics alike as the most influential jazz pianist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, has died. He was 81. Tyner’s death was ...