Jazz Sessions, a new feature, presents some of today's most exciting musicians as they chat and perform in the studio with public radio hosts from around the country. I've been after Keith Jarrett for ...

Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz” radio program will return to Chicago’s airwaves when WDCB-FM 90.9 begins broadcasting past shows at 7 p.m. Wednesdays starting Feb. 5. The radio station, based at the ...

Bobby Short often called himself a "saloon singer," but the world will remember him as one of the greatest cabaret performers of the 20th century. From the very first season of the show, this Piano ...

ANN ARBOR – Marian McPartland, jazz pianist and popular host of NPR's "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz" makes her UMS debut at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 in Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium as part of the ...

Marian McPartland, a jazz pianist and composer whose radio show “Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz” was National Public Radio’s longest running and most widely carried jazz program, has died. She was 95.

Marian McPartland’s Peabody Award-winning Piano Jazz radio series profiling various musicians has been popular for 25 years and has featured over 300 musical guests. These four segments – two ...

Film about legendary jazz piano player Marian McPartland, exploring her life and career. A documentary film about jazz piano player Marian McPartland (1918 - 2013). The film explores her life ...

Marian McPartland has made jazz piano duets into something of an art form. Sure, it's been done before, but not very often. There are the Pete Johnson/Albert Ammons duet sessions that made both boogie ...

For his part, Mintz has appeared at the Muddy before and was for many years a keeper of the experimental jazz flame in Los Angeles, as one of that city’s more subtle and witty jazz arbiters. Based in ...

Also consider the completely unrehearsed, improvised piano duet with two kings of the keyboard, Kenny Barron and Mulgrew Miller, on the same program as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and a closing-night ...