On this week's Piano Jazz: a 1986 session with trumpeter, singer and pianist Roy "Little Jazz" Eldridge. Host Marian McPartland first met Eldridge in 1950, when she invited him to play with her and ...

If ragtime piano can be seen as the starting point in the evolution of jazz piano, then the next step in that evolutionary process wasn't a step all; it was a "stride." Around 1920, the popularity of ...

Barry Harris, a Detroit-born jazz pianist and steadfast champion of bebop, died Dec. 8 at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, New Jersey. He was 91. Business partner and collaborator Howard Rees ...