Explore the Windy City through tracks by Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Lester Bowie and the contemporary artists at the ...

A look back at 10 great songs recorded by Roberta Flack, with 'Killing Me Softly' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' just as starting points.

Roberta Flack has died at 88. The Grammy-winning singer and pianist was known for her intimate vocal and musical style on ...

He spent two years with Charles Mingus ... A classically-trained pianist, Lewis fused jazz with rhythm’n’blues and gospel music to forge a distinctive soul jazz style that spawned a host ...

Singer, pianist and songwriter Tony DeSare will ... Elton John, Journey, Ray Charles and Jerry Lee Lewis," WTS said in a press release. Ethan Willis, executive director of the West Texas Symphony ...

Immediately he reestablished ties with pianist Matthew Shipp whom he met in ... to NYC Rob met William Parker and formed a trio with Denis Charles that explored a slightly more traditional jazz trio ...

He is in the RIT Jazz Ensemble ... including the Governor General of Canada and even Prince Charles. Whether in an ensemble or performing solo with her sister Maria Fuller (an accomplished pianist ...

The first Black musicians to make a jazz record Among the contenders for the first Black musicians to make a jazz record are pianist Charles Prince ... and Meade Lux Lewis recorded 19 takes ...

Its catalogue of great albums, long-playing records, and even 78rpm and 45rpm records is for many the holy grail of jazz ... and Lewis, Lion brought whiskey to lubricate the pianists’ fingers ...