Indianapolis is home to the American Piano Awards, which will begin its 2027 cycle this fall with five top U.S. jazz pianists competing to win.

Payam Music, a Santa Monica piano school using alphanumeric notation instead of sheet music, raised funding from Mark Cuban ...

Over the last quarter century, composer and pianist David Benoit (b. 1953) has been a passionate musical innovator committed to the exploration of many different art forms on the American landscape. A ...

Kenny Barron's unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms is what inspired "The Los Angeles Times" to name him "one of the top jazz ...

An anonymous watercolor portrait of Francis Johnson holding an early 19th-century horn Courtesy NYPL On March 9, 1819, a supremely gifted musician named Francis “Frank” Johnson played a concert at the ...

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Composers Concordance opens its 2026–27 season with M2duO, featuring violinist Machiko Ozawa and pianist Makia Matsumura ...

Jay-Z celebrated 30 years of music at Yankee Stadium with appearances by Beyoncé and Blue Ivy Carter, who wowed the crowd with her piano skills.

June 26, 2026 • To mark the occasion of Miles Davis' centennial, trumpeter Keyon Harrold put on a concert at Carnegie Hall and shared a candid conversation about the legend with Christian McBride.

Long lost tapes of an Oscar Peterson piano performance in Detroit take us back in time to the night the jazz session was recorded.

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