We asked Samara Joy, Hanif Abdurraqib, Vijay Iyer and others to share their favorite tracks showcasing what might be the most nuanced instrument in jazz. By Marcus J. Moore Over the past few months, ...

Yoko Miwa is a fixture in the Boston jazz scene. She’s a piano professor at Berklee, an internationally acclaimed touring artist, and she’s held down a Friday night residency at the Mad Monkfish in ...

Loston Harris often points out that he's been blessed in his connections. Since he began playing jazz piano at New York City clubs in the early 1990s, he's shared the stage and performed for both ...

Want to play jazz piano but don’t know where to begin? This is your starting point. In this lesson, we walk through a simple but powerful exercise: playing major ii-V-I progressions in all 12 keys.

Notes about playing jazz; a fun guide to this inventive music. Yup, notes are the problem. How many to play, which ones, and at what time. Guitarists are known by their desire to play one or two extra ...

ArcoIris Sandoval was born to play jazz piano. "My dad started me when I was 6 weeks old," Sandoval said during a coffee break near East Grant Road and North Campbell Avenue. Her father would sit at ...

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 ...

Three Bowdoin employees—a writer for the communications office, a professor of Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Africana Studies, and a pop/jazz piano instructor—have formed a jazzy musical trio ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Williams, best known for his film work, has a parallel career in classical music. His concerto, haunted by the ghosts of jazz past, is premiering at ...

On Veteran's Day, we told the story of legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz playing for American troops during WWII. Fred Child reads an e-mail from a PT listener who heard Heifetz during the war years.