Marian McPartland has shared duets and conversations with piano jazz luminaries for decades as host of NPR's Piano Jazz program. In January, the show gets a new host — and a new focus. Pianist Jon ...

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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 ...

At the other end of the density scale, while Kirk Lightsey's ivory-tickling also packs in a lot more than it seems, this whole recital still feels lighter than air. The program is comfortably familiar ...

One night in a Japanese jazz kissa changed music listening for me forever. My love for the jazz piano trio began in the most unique way possible. Every now and then, a listening session turns into ...

Miles Davis is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of jazz music. Over the course of his career, he had a significant impact on jazz piano, jazz composition, and jazz ...

Jazz musicians typically break into two groups: Those who grew up with jazz, either via parental music collections or relatives who were working musicians; and those who have a watershed moment when ...

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We revisit a 2016 interview when NPR's Robert Siegel spoke with actor and comedian H. Jon Benjamin about a jazz album on which he plays piano despite no training. If you're tired of doom scrolling ...

Composer Greg Mackender (left) and professional stride pianist Bram Wijnands play 1920s-style jazz for 'Twelfth Night.' Theater directors who take on Shakespeare, as Sidonie Garrett does every summer, ...

Lovers of music owe a special debt to the Baltimore postal worker who introduced Cyrus Chestnut to the piano. That single act — a father bestowing the gift of music on his son in the 1960s — resulted ...

Jack DeJohnette, who has died aged 83, was one of the greatest drummers in modern jazz, working with the likes of Sonny ...