Jazz pianist Matthew Whitaker, praised as ‘one of the greatest,’ coming to Rohnert Park Matthew Whitaker brings his quintet to the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University on Saturday.

All About Jazz member votes were tabulated and this list represents our favorite living jazz pianists. Fully transparent and easily verifiable, All About Jazz's living pianists poll was conducted ...

The music of this pianist, who played with giants like Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, can feel mysterious ...

For all their musical differences, one of the great pleasures to be found in this set is that, recorded on the same stage on the same day—with the same mics, mixers, post-production, and more ...

After scoring a hit with 1958 album "Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not for Me," the jazz great opened the short-lived Chicago club the Alhambra.

Thelonious Monk was one of the greatest jazz pianists and composers in history. Thelonious Monk was born in Rocky Mount and moved to New York City as a child. In the following years, Monk rose to ...

Jahari Stampley, a 24-year-old pianist who just won one of jazz's greatest accolades, the Herbie Hancock International Jazz Competition on Dec. 4, 2023.

She has evolved into one of Tucson's best young jazz pianists, playing highly complicated jazz classics, polyrhythmic Afro-Cuban works and her own compositions.

Jazz great Oscar Peterson died of kidney failure Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007, in Toronto at age 82. Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was born on Montreal’s Delisle Street on Aug. 15, 1925. The fourth of five ...

Austrian-born Friedrich Gulda, 37, enjoys a dual distinction. He is the best classical pianist now playing jazz, and the best jazz pianist now playing classical music. Last week, at the Village ...

Pianist Cyrus Chestnut is a technical wizard on the keyboard with a deep understanding of music and a passion for performing. His charm onstage just adds to the fun.