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 ...

The recordings, compositions and stories of Bown are limited. But they reveal a woman who, at the piano bench, swung with command, expression, and skill.

Austrian-born Friedrich Gulda, 37, enjoys a dual distinction. He is the best classical pianist now playing jazz, and the best jazz pianist now playing classical music. Last week, at the Village ...

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 ...

Les McCann was already an established solo artist — a blues-forward jazz pianist in his 30s, with more than two dozen albums to his name — when he had a career-defining moment at the 1969 Montreux ...

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 ...

DENVER – Billy Wallace can pound out the notes to more than 4,000 songs strictly by memory, but the 86-year-old jazz pianist -- who once played with some of the country's best -- no longer recognizes ...

Pianist Cyrus Chestnut is a technical wizard on the keyboard with a deep understanding of music and a passion for performing. His charm onstage just adds to the fun. Chestnut, who started piano at age ...

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 ...