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This year's edition of A Jazz Piano Christmas has now been distributed to NPR stations and online at NPR Music.

Billy Taylor duets with Eldar at A Jazz Piano Christmas 2009. Margot Schulman Billy Taylor duets with Eldar at A Jazz Piano Christmas 2009.

The joint will be jumping Sunday when Southwestern Illinois College's Jazz Band and Chamber Choir fills Fischer's Jubilee Room with a rousing afternoon of jazz.

Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer , drummer Marcus Gilmore and bassist Stephan Crump are the members of the Vijay Iyer Trio.

Ramsey Lewis, Larry Gray, and Leon Joyce at Chicago Recording Company, Thursday night.

October 29, 2009 from KPLU - In 1965, Chicago jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis had a hit record, "The In Crowd" by The Ramsey Lewis Trio, featuring drummer Redd Holt and bassist Eldee Young.

With more than 80 albums to his credit , composer, pianist, jazz legend Ramsey Lewis shows no signs of slowing down.

Smooth Jazz pianist Alan Hewitt 's new CD Retroactive , his first for NuGroove Records, won't be released until January 19th.

Composer and pianist Ramsey Lewis has been referred to as a oethe great performer', a title reflecting his performance style and musical selections which display his early gospel playing and classical training along with his love of jazz and other musical forms.

Track Touching Feeling Knowing Artist/Band Ramsey Lewis Duration 7:17 Album Songs from the Heart: Ramsey Plays Record Label Concord Jazz Purchase this CD at concordmusicgroup.com . Visit Ramsey Lewis on the web.

Today, September 29, Ramsey Lewis presents Songs From the Heart: Ramsey Plays Ramsey , the debut Concord Jazz CD from theA legendary pianist.

Aug. 15, 1965. Having traveled by helicopter to the site of the World's Fair in Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, four shaggy-headed Brits board an armored car for their ride to the recently opened Shea Stadium.

Recently in the Wall Street Journal, arts columnist Terry Teachout pushed a lot of buttons with his provocatively titled article, "Can Jazz Be Saved?" Taking recent National Endowment for the Arts survey stats at full value, Teachout drew some dramatic conclusions.

LAKESIDE -- Hoover Auditorium offers a variety of entertainment this week. A one-day gate pass costs $17 for adults, $12 for youth ages 12 to 18.

Irvin Mayfield presides over six consecutive nights of Los Hombres Calientes music starting Tuesday, Aug.

Brooks & Dunn says they're done. The best-selling country duo posted a message on its Web site Monday saying they've agreed to "call it a day" after 20 years of making music together.

In his role as curator of the Minnesota Orchestra's jazz-concert series, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield introduced Thursday night's Orchestra Hall concert by jazz-piano icon Ramsey Lewis, indicating Lewis would expound on the blues and gospel roots of jazz.

Remember a tune called 'The 'In' Crowd"? Recorded live at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C., by Ramsey Lewis and his trio at the time, it was irresistible: upbeat, swinging, punctuated by approval from the audience .

Remember a tune called "The 'In' Crowd"? Recorded live at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C., by Ramsey Lewis and his trio at the time, it was irresistible: upbeat, swinging, punctuated by approval from the audience .

P ianist Ramsey Lewis will forever be associated with "The In Crowd," the finger-snapping instrumental hit from 1965 that perennially sounds like the best song Ray Charles never made.