When he was 12, Charles Hamilton saw Louis Armstrong on television—he thinks on The Ed Sullivan Show. That pivotal performance inspired him to tell his mother he wanted to play trumpet. It’s worked ...

Indianapolis is home to the American Piano Awards, which will begin its 2027 cycle this fall with five top U.S. jazz pianists ...

Andrii Pokaz holds Bachelor's and PhD degrees from the Odesa National A.V. Nezhdanova Academy of Music, where he later returned as a professor, teaching and mentoring young Ukrainian musicians for ...

I started playing piano at 6 years old but it wasn't until I was 15 I knew I wanted to pursue music as a career. I've always been singing, mostly in choirs and I loved singing and accompanying myself ...

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 ...

John Eaton, a jazz pianist who helped draw renewed attention to the Great American Songbook, championing the work of Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin, Fats Waller and other composers while gaining a ...

Glass City Jazz Fest is returning for its fifth year with a new schedule, new lineup and additional locations.

Michel Petrucciani: diminuitive French pianist, glass bones disease= no calcium, given toy piano and smashes it, demanding real piano. At the end he was up there with Keith Jarrett or anybody else at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Renowned South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim left the discrimination of apartheid South Africa and was discovered by Duke ...

The accomplished musician, who recorded over 70 albums in his career, died peacefully in Germany after a short illness ...