Among the numerous careers that Charles Farrell has dabbled in, three stood out enough for him to have fashioned a book about them. “(Low)life – A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and the Mob” is an ...

St. Martin’s Press, 496 pp., $35. In bookstores Oct. 16. Paradise may be a great place to live in, but its implicit lack of conflict makes it a lousy home for a dramatist. In similar fashion, it’s ...

The Keystone Korner was a legendary jazz club in San Francisco between 1972 and 1983, a place where Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Art Blakey and Dexter Gordon recorded important live albums. Owner Todd Barkan ...

2012 Soon after autumn leaves fall, promos hit the airwaves for the various Charlie Brown Holiday specials. Those timeless animations are lathered up with marvelously hip jazz—that of pianist Vince ...

When CPR Classical host Matt Weesner is not behind the microphone he's behind the piano. An accomplished jazz musician, Matt usually spends his spare time practicing music for his next gig. Now that ...

You don’t need a full band to bring a jazz standard to life, just three key techniques. In this video, I’ll show you how to ...

At the age of twenty-one, New York pianist Julian Waterfall Pollack has the jazz community abuzz with his mature, technically ferocious, and dynamic piano playing. Among his many accomplishments, ...

Here’s exactly how Mahershala Ali became a virtuosic jazz pianist in the space of a few months (hint: he had a little help from a real-life virtuosic jazz pianist). Ali, who picked up an Oscar for ...