On Nov. 7, the Recording Academy announced their 2026 Grammy nominations, including finalists for each of the six jazz ...

She’s been at least intriguing since she first came on the scene as a fearless 27-year-old back in 2008, splashing new colors on the jazz skies with her crystalline intonation, oddball intervals, and ...

Michel Petrucciani: diminuitive French pianist, glass bones disease= no calcium, given toy piano and smashes it, demanding real piano. At the end he was up there with Keith Jarrett or anybody else at ...

Here are my 10 top albums that made the last 12 months even more worthwhile, and they’ve held up to repeated listening, too: ...

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every musical setting. His death Friday morning just after midnight, silences an ...

And it seems that in 2025 there was not only an abundance of new jazz releases, but the quality bar was raised again, with ...

This week we check out five great piano players from the jazz arena. I love jazz piano—it combines the best of creative improvisation, chord substitutions, and artistic brilliance. With 88 keys, a ...

NEW YORK — Chick Corea, a jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. He was 79. Corea died ...

ArcoIris Sandoval was born to play jazz piano. "My dad started me when I was 6 weeks old," Sandoval said during a coffee break near East Grant Road and North Campbell Avenue. Her father would sit at ...

For many years, Jim Stack played jazz at venues around the country, and in Charlotte at Cajun Queen restaurant. He was also the full-time pianist for the Charlotte Country Club. Stack is now 95 and ...

The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations.

MANY jazz listeners have affirmed, that in the long wake of the John Coltrane Quartet, the foursome that has since most ...