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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Les McCann, a prolific and influential musician and recording artist who helped found the soul-jazz genre and became a favorite source for sampling by Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest and hundreds of ...

With his songs characterized by melodic dissonance and playful rhythmic and improvisational nature, Thelonious Monk helped define the challenging, almost rebellious, nature of jazz music during the ...

Sullivan Fortner Jr. will bring his unique blend of humor, emotion and improvisation to Kalamazoo's Gilmore Piano Festival on ...

As a touring member of the rock band Haim, Paul Cornish spent six nights playing in front of 70,000 people at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, opening for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. “I don’t think I’ll ever ...