Beginning jazz piano students--How many times have you picked up a jazz piano educational book only to find content that was over your head by page three? The Next Step is a fun and creative approach ...

For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz album of all time—Keith Jarrett’s passionate and sublime The Köln Concert—though she’d been essential ...

College can be a transformative time in a person's life. For Houston native Helen Sung, it was unexpectedly so. Now an award-winning jazz pianist, Sung had been on the path to a career as a classical ...

Pianist Joan Stiles dedicated herself to jazz after she'd begun classical piano study in college. As a teenager, she sang and played in pop groups; the only jazz records she owned were a solo ...

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 ...

From the Harlem Renaissance to modern improvisation, jazz has always been connected to wellness and self-expression.

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the ...

Caelan Cardello responds to significant emotions and people in his life in the way only a musician can — by hearing the beginning of a new riff in his mind. On a 2014 hike in Yosemite National Park in ...

Elysium Furnace Works is proud the announce the initial concerts for its 2025 season. To kick off 2025, EFW will present its very first solo piano festival. On each Saturday in March this year, EFW ...