At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the ...

For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith ...

Thelonious Monk ends his 1967 album Straight, No Chaser with the song "We See." This Monk classic quartet remake from the 1950s was also the last piece of jazz music performed at this year's Irving S.

The keyboardist and harpist Alice Coltrane has the disadvantage of bearing the last name of her husband, John Coltrane. He was already world-famous in the mid-sixties, when they married and started ...

On July 31, 2008, NEA Jazzmaster Hank Jones celebrated his 90th birthday. Born in Mississippi, raised in Michigan and now a resident of upstate New York, the pianist and elder brother of renowned ...

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Esteban Castro's parents gave him a toy piano when he was three years old. "I would just kind of gravitate toward it a lot," he recalled. "When I ...

“Jazz is new every time. There isn’t the restriction of the exact notes you must play in classical music,” says 17-year-old Harry Scott. A senior at Mayo High School this fall, Scott knows a thing or ...

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 ...

Lady Gaga‘s Las Vegas residency promises only two things: Jazz & Piano. But judging from the photos she posted of Thursday’s opening night performance and video that’s surfaced online, it contains so ...