NPR Music's Felix Contreras presents some of the stand out performances of beloved holiday tradition, celebrating its 25th anniversary.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Red Garland’s Soul Junction returns in a superb OJC reissue—clean, balanced sound, authoritative piano, and essential listening for anyone who loves the piano.

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 ...

Thursday night is always the second night of the biennial Gilmore Keyboard Festival. Thursday night is also the first night for jazz, the festival putatively a classical music rollout with jazz ...

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 ...

Actor/pianist Jeff Goldblum and his combo The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra have a standing gig at an L.A. nightclub. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star ...

Peter Cincotti had to work twice as hard as usual last night because at least half of the Cafe Carlyle crowd — those of us who live on the West Side — was in an unusually grumpy mood. At the time, ...