If you're new to jazz piano, this is one of the most important exercises you can start with. Learn how to play major ii–V–I ...

Basic Jazz Record Library Murray Horwitz and A.B. Spellman pick ... This definitive compilation (reissued in 1990) has most of Beiderbecke's best work, including his piano classic "In a Mist ...

Stride Piano: Bottom-End Jazz Born out of Harlem in the 1920s, stride pianists took the basic left-hand "oompah" rhythm of ragtime, but played it with more swing and complexity, while the right ...

The diversity present in the basic trio instrumentation--piano, bass and drums--is noticeably apparent in two new recordings from two very different players, Michel Camilo and Lynne Arriale.

Marian McPartland, a jazz pianist and composer whose radio show “Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz” was National Public Radio’s longest running and most widely carried jazz program, has died ...

Hanif Abdurraqib, writer. The title track to “Money Jungle” is one of my favorite jazz piano moments. I love “Money Jungle” as an album, because it sounds, in a way, how it felt to make ...