The history of the jazz piano starts in 1899. By my count, 20 pianists changed the direction of jazz over the course of 75 years. Here are 20 sample tracks in chronological order of those pianists.

This is an excellent Jazz piano chord glossary as they go. Keyboard chord glossaries containing dozens of notated chord voicings are a rather common entry on the music publishing market, but this ...

Ran Blake and Frank Carlberg “Gray Moon” (Red Piano Records) Here’s one for pianos lovers: On “Gray Moon,” Ran Blake and Frank Carlberg tickle the ol’ 176, conducting a compelling keyboard ...

In 1960, when Hancock was 20, trumpeter Donald Byrd discovered the young pianist and asked him to join his group. Byrd also introduced him to Alfred Lion of Blue Note Records, and after two years of ...

Toward the end of every year, NPR Music invites some of the world's best jazz keyboard players to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. We ask them to take on some of their favorite ...

It began innocently enough: a group of students from Pleasanton’s Lighthouse Baptist School visited the Stoneridge Creek Retirement Community to sing carols at Christmastime. As they were waiting in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. STEVE Sedergreen knew he was being ''a bit naughty'' gatecrashing Herbie Hancock's after-show party. But words of wisdom from a bona ...

Chick Corea, a creative keyboardist who spearheaded the jazz fusion movement, died Tuesday at home in Florida. He was 79. The cause was cancer, according to a statement on Corea’s website. “Chick ...

When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Charleston Jazz — one of the Lowcountry’s cornerstone nonprofit arts organizations dedicated to performance, education and ...