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 ...

Thinking about music, rehearsing and trying out different ideas and approaches are just as inspirational to award-winning jazz pianist Irving Flores as being on stage and performing for an ...

Michael Weiss has been a leading pianist and composer in jazz spaces for over 30 years. He’s returning to Sculler’s Jazz Club with his trio on March 15th. Before the show, he sat down with the hosts ...

Bertha Hope was only three years old when she started playing Brahms’ “Lullaby” on the piano just from hearing it on the radio. “How did you do that?” asked her shocked parents, both entertainers.

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz pianist Bud Powell was born Sept. 27, 1924. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead, says Powell's life was often a nightmare. He was shy and withdrawn, even before getting severely ...

After a quarter of a century as an acclaimed and iconoclastic modern-jazz group, the Twin Cities-launched the Bad Plus is wrapping it up this year. The group announced its intention on social media ...

Trumpeter Pharez Whitted returns to the Jazz Showcase, Angel Bat Dawid pays tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois at the Harris Theater, ...

A group of jazz musicians playing at a historic pub have recreated an LP which was first recorded at the venue in 1979. Jazz At The Duke Volume II will raise money for the Bristol Jazz Festival, which ...

Indianapolis jazz pianist and composer Christopher Pitts, for the first time with his trio, is kicking off this year’s spring ...

Andrii Pokaz holds Bachelor's and PhD degrees from the Odesa National A.V. Nezhdanova Academy of Music, where he later returned as a professor, teaching and mentoring young Ukrainian musicians for ...

Bertha Hope was only three years old when she started playing Brahms’ “Lullaby” on the piano just from hearing it on the radio. “How did you do that?” asked her shocked parents, both entertainers.