A two-hour special show showcasing the music of Chick Corea on WMNF’s Colors of Jazz, Sunday, July 23, at 8 pm. ET. In his 60-year musical career, Chick Corea changed the sound of jazz with the ...

Herbie Hancock and Carlos Santana In The Studio, circa 1980 (Photo: Hancock Archives) From his earliest days as a pianist for Donald Byrd, then Miles Davis, up through his work in the 1960s, 1970s, ...

The idea that pianists are able to create different tone colors and different timbres, was once a topic of heated debate, but is now no longer questioned. For some performers, the sound can be a ...

We are a small community in Norway. There is a quite strong musical tradition that doesn't have anything to do with the American music. We improvise from quite different platforms; we come from a ...

Jazz pianist Fred Hersch fully embraces the freedom that comes with improvisation on his solo album “Silent, Listening,” spontaneously composing and performing tunes that are often without melody, ...

Don Was’ Detroit All-Star Revue at this year’s Concert of Colors, taking place on July 12-15, will celebrate some of Detroit’s jazz greats. “The idea for the metaphor was that the composition and ...

As the musicians play on the bandstand, boats glide slowly behind them, suggesting a tableau you’d sooner expect to encounter at a plush resort than a dense metropolis. The Water Colors jazz series at ...

Michael Wolff's stock in trade is the jazz piano. But as the instructor for the R&B ensemble at The New School in New York, he required prospective students to play either B.B. King's "The Thrill is ...