One thing's for sure, I'm not going to spend my life playing 'Stella by Starlight' in some wine bar. As good as his word, Courtney Pine reads us a different [more]
For Robert Altman's {#Kansas City} film, since the story was centered in 1934 Kansas City, Altman wanted to have younger musicians depict top jazz artists of [more]
A power trio of a completely different kind, Triad, comprised of Geri Allen with brothers Mark and Scott Batson, tackle the music of Jimi Hendrix in a way that surely the grand [more]
In jazz, two pianos are usually one too many - but not when the second pair of hands belongs to Marian McPartland. As the host of National Public Radio's Piano Jazz, the longest-running jazz program in the history of network radio, McPartland has played more duets with more different pianists than anyone in the history of jazz, and the fruits of her vast experience can be heard on Just Friends, in which six of her favorite on-the-air partners join forces to celebrate her 80th birthday. -Terry Teachout
Some jazz fans casually dismiss duo piano performances as mere novelties that all too often result in train wrecks. With hundreds of {#Piano Jazz} sessions and a few additional [more]
Jazz giants like Jack McDuff, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Burrell, and Bobby Hutcherson all contribute tracks and brush shoulders with jazz middleweights like Wallace [more]
Right in the middle of celebrating his 79th birthday, Clark Terry went into the studio for several days to record 14 duets with a different pianist on each track, with many of them being [more]
Opening with a brief outtake of "Freddie Freeloader" from the Kind of Blue sessions, the Evolution of the Groove EP is an experiment, and an attempt by the Miles Davis estate [more]
Former Count Basie trombonist Dennis Wilson, who has spent many years teaching at the University of Michigan, takes over the reins of the big band as an [more]