For once, with a bit of prodding, Tony DeSare played music critic instead of jazzy piano. Well, kind of. He acknowledged that 6-year-old son Christopher’s recent first public keyboard recital unfolded ...

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.

FILE PHOTO: Prince performs in a surprise appearance on the "American Idol" television show finale at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, U.S., May 24, 2006. REUTERS/Chris Pizzello/File Photo ...

Inon Barnatan, the brilliant Israeli-born pianist, had never played a lick of Aaron Copland’s music before performing his jazz-imbued 1926 Piano Concerto this season with the St. Louis Symphony. Now ...

Singer, composer and pianist Norah Jones was born on March 30, 1979, in New York City. But her musical life began in Grapevine, Tex. It was during her time there that she began singing in church ...

Within/Earshot Jazz Festival is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung ...

Musicians, and Libertyville High School faculty members, Claire Birmingham and Laurel Kaiser will perform French composers with jazzy flair at the David Adler Music and Arts Center on Friday, April 27 ...

David Warren Brubeck (Dec. 6, 1920 - Dec. 5, 2012) was born in Concord, California. His father was a cattle rancher and his mother taught piano. His two older brothers, Henry and Howard, studied to ...

Reporting from Las Vegas — The Las Vegas strip has seen pop spectacles as flashy as Lady Gaga’s new show Enigma, in which she flies over the audience in a shiny pod shaped like an egg. And, of course, ...

As managing director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Willem Wijnbergen was very much in the public eye. So was his abrupt departure in June 1999 from that position--over “serious issues,” in the ...

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