Zach Evans. Photo Courtesy of Zach Evans. Zach Evans is a man that wear many hats: pianist, producer, musician, content creator, and entrepreneur. He chatted about his latest endeavors and being a part of the […]
KIM Kardashian has paid well into the six-figure range for Kanye West’s pianist Philip Cornish to wake up their kids on Christmas, a source exclusively told The U.S. Sun. The Grammy-winning pianist, who has been […]
AD 93 will release a new album from Jasmine Wood, a composer, producer, and multidisciplinary artist originally from Portland, Oregon now based in Dublin. She recorded Piano Reverb on an antique Blüthner grand piano in […]
Ólafur Arnalds has launched a new label called OPIA with a new single from Sofi Paez, a pianist and composer born in San José, Costa Rica. Paez experiments with piano, voice, and electronic elements in […]
Les McCann performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1974. Tom Copi/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tom Copi/Getty Images Les McCann performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1974. Tom Copi/Getty Images Les McCann […]
Jazz pianist and singer Les McCann, best known for his raucous live single “Compared to What” from the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival and later sampled heavily by hip-hop artists, died Friday at a Los Angeles-area […]
Kelly Moran will release her first new music in five years. Using a programmable Yamaha player piano known as the disklavier, on Vesela Moran breaks from the disklavier’s technical potential in favor of “recreating the […]
Carla Bley, the American jazz composer-pianist celebrated for boldly avant-garde work as well as her uplifting and beautiful takes on the genre’s mainstream, has died aged 87. Her death was announced by longtime partner and […]
Carla Bley performs in Nice, France, in 2009. Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images Carla Bley performs in Nice, France, in 2009. Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images […]
Pianist André Watts, age 16, in rehearsal with the New York Philharmonic for one of Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts. CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images Pianist André Watts, […]
Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato accepts the best Latin jazz album award at the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, on Nov. 11, 2010, in Las Vegas. Julie Jacobson/AP hide caption toggle caption Julie Jacobson/AP […]
David Bowie’s pianist fears he’s to blame for the late singer quitting touring. The ‘Starman’ legend – who died in 2016 aged 69 after a private cancer battle – never toured again after 2004, and […]
Portland pianist Mary Sutton, better known as Saloli, will release her second album on Kranky. Canyon, which delves deeper into her roots as a Cherokee Nation citizen, is intended to evoke “a day in the […]
Photo Credit: George Winston Pianist George Winston has passed away after a lengthy 10-year battle with cancer. Pianist George Winston, a musician whose recordings crowned him one of the first stars of New Age music, […]
George Winston performs onstage at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville in 2019. Jason Davis/Getty Images for NAMM hide caption toggle caption Jason Davis/Getty Images for NAMM George Winston performs onstage at the […]
Ahmad Jamal, a pianist, composer and arranger whose innovative, chamber jazz style had a powerful impact on his contemporaries while gaining widespread popularity via such recordings as his bestselling interpretation of “Poinciana,” has died, according […]
Musician Ahmad Jamal has been a major jazz figure since the 1950s. Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse is a set of never-before-released recordings of Jamal in his prime. Share This Article
Legendary jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis was propelled to fame with his trio’s 1965 hit — “The ‘In’ Crowd.” The Grammy-winning Chicago pianist, composer and radio host died peacefully in his home Monday. Share This Article
Ramsey Lewis, seen here performing at the Ontario Jazz Festival in 1981, died Monday at his home in Chicago. Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images […]
Pianist and conductor Lars Vogt has died at age 51. He had cancer. Gioriga Bertazzi/Askonas Holt hide caption toggle caption Gioriga Bertazzi/Askonas Holt Pianist and conductor Lars Vogt has died at age 51. He had […]