Reviewers often marveled at Mr. Solal’s virtuoso skills and dizzying arpeggios, calling him one of the great “storytelling” jazz piano soloists. “Invented at breathtaking speed,” wrote ...

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This is rather like trying to choose the top ten best piano concertos from a repertoire ... of his life in exile in the US. Here the jazz age comes to Paris with iridescent orchestration, split ...

Led by Seattle-based saxophonist Steve Treseler and Bellingham-based trumpeter Kevin Woods, In Motion Quartet releases their debut album The Grind, an adventurous set of original music exploring ...

Beethoven’s five piano concertos trace a path from Classicism to Romanticism and are masterpieces of a genre he revolutionized. The first three show him as the young lion of Vienna, the fourth ...

Murray, 74, was an audience member at Bemelmans Bar, inside the famed Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side, listening to the tunes of singing jazz pianist ... to buy the sheet music for the ...

The 21st century has been a time of flux and redefinition for jazz, thanks to a generation of players who’ve mixed a love of bebop and swing with equally deep feelings for hip-hop, reggae, funk ...

Here's a collection of the Jazz Night team's favorite holiday music, including timeless classics and a few brand-new bops.

In 1900, Paris hosted its first Olympic games. It had been the second city to host them after the first Olympics in Athens. It was also the year of the Exposition Universelle, where the city would ...

December 31, 2024 • NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich turns us on to lesser known corners of music from 2024: blooming drone-folk, richly textured jazz, Somali garage-rock, medieval metal and a ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...