It's difficult to encapsulate pianist Matthew Shipp's inimitable musical vision and approach exclusively with words. The elusiveness of his aesthetic stems from its malleability: Shipp retains his ...

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This week, Piano Jazz celebrates Women's History Month with selections from some of the renowned female singers who've appeared on the program. Marian McPartland accompanies several luminaries and ...

The Second Annual New York Jazz Piano Festival is a dream come true for all of us who have a deep love for jazz and piano music. We’re thrilled to create a platform that brings together the world’s ...

Since the early 1990s, piano maestro Matthew Shipp has been a chief linchpin of the avant-garde jazz underground, producing a monolithic catalog that has pioneered—and polarized—the jazz lexicon. The ...

In a quiet backyard nestled in the Sherman Oaks hills, seasoned jazz musician Larry Goldings begins to play the punchy opening notes to Van Halen’s “Jump” on his prized melodica. Standing beside him ...

During the '80s and '90s, Senri Oe was heating up stages as a top-selling pop star in Japan. These days, music fans will find him entertaining people in the jazz piano realm. Senri Oe brings his 'Boys ...

Tigran Hamasyan won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition in 2006, but the music that resonates even deeper for him is centuries removed — and a sound world away — from jazz. In ...