Contemporary jazz saxophonist Jessy J is a fresh new face with a knack for recording CDs that zip up the music charts. Making up songs comes easy, she says, and she loves the speed of improvising on ...

Marian McPartland has shared duets and conversations with piano jazz luminaries for decades as host of NPR's Piano Jazz program. In January, the show gets a new host — and a new focus. Pianist Jon ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nord has announced the Grand, its first stage piano to feature triple sensors. This also includes ...

Jazz musicians are the innovative artists who create and perform jazz, a uniquely music style born in New Orleans in the early 1900s. These musicians blend improvisation, rhythm, and personal ...

Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly ironic part-time job ...