Les Rose and The Valley Jazz Collective will perform Jazz Explorations — Compositions of the Masters of Jazz Piano, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9 at St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley in Los Olivos. The evening will ...

This record represents my highest pinnacle of musical expression to date... I'm entirely uninhibited and freely pursue numerous musical avenues. The music covers a broad spectrum of elements—sometimes ...

The 2026 NEA Jazz Masters are singer Carmen Lundy, keyboardist Patrice Rushen, percussionist Airto Moreira, and broadcaster ...

Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, who grew up in Montreal and called Canada home for his whole life, has died at the age of 82. He led the Oscar Peterson Trio for much of the 1950s and collaborated with ...

This scintillating batch of ECM Luminessence vinyl reissues features classic albums by Chick Corea, Paul Bley and Rainer Brüninghaus, along with Herbie Hancock playing as a sideman with ex- Miles ...

In a concert and ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the National Endowment for the Arts recognized its latest class of NEA Jazz Masters on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. The honor, here in ...

The year nearly has ended, critics are polishing their Top 10 lists and Black Friday is behind us. Yet as 2015 winds down, two of Chicago’s top jazz pianists have released noteworthy new recordings.

Shortly before playing a re-harmonized, solo version of “Happy Birthday” five hours into the 40th annual Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, pianist Dave Grusin announced, “This is either a ...

Barry Harris and Kenny Barron, two jazz piano masters, played with such consummate grace and ease Monday night that you might have thought they were jamming in the comfort and privacy of their living ...

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 ...