Jazz pianist

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (1925-2007) Courtesy William Smith Courtesy Paul Hoeffler Peterson redefined the jazz trio by bringing the musicianship of all three members to the highest level. The trio with Ray Brown and Herb Ellis was, in his own words, "the most stimulating" and productive setting for public performances as well as in studio recordings. In the early 1950s, Peterson began performing with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as the Oscar Peterson Trio. Shortly afterward the drummer Smith…

The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album, and calling jazz an international — not just an American — music.

Review of previously unreleased live album by legendary pianist Bill Evans and his trio with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette

Tommy Flanagan

"Entertainer and pianist Ray Charles performs onstage in circa 1978 in San Francisco, California." Photo by Tom Copi (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty).

Ray Charles, guesting on "Cher" (she's seen standing left), the CBS TV show. Ray starred in episode 10 of the second season, aired on 16 November 1975, taped on August 7. Photo by Terry O'Neill.

Thelonious Monk (1917–1982) was a man of many hats — literally. A look at the covers for some of his most beloved albums — The Unique Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Music, Thelonious Alone in San Francisco, Monk’s Dream, It’s Monk Time, Underground, and, most recently, the long-awaited release of his soundtrack to Roger Vadim’s controversial 1960 French film […]

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Keith Jarrett

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Glenn Herbert Gould (25 September 1932 in Toronto ON – 4 October 1982) Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach's music. Gould was also known as a writer, composer, conductor, and broadcaster.

Bobby Timmons

Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of a jazz orchestra. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle, and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music, rather than to a musical genre such as jazz.

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