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In addition to the piano, he has been known to perform on the prepared Fender Rhodes mechanical piano, and contributes to produce jazz, improvised and experimental music in California.

He plays rock songs by Radiohead. As a teenager, he was deeply influenced by a cassette tape split between the music of Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane.

At the Montreal International Jazz Festival during that same year, her Quintet was nominated for the Grand prix de jazz General Motors.

A celebration of Dave Brubeck's life and music turned into an ode to joy as family, friends and fans paid tribute to the groundbreaking pianist and composer who became the best known ambassador of jazz to the world.

Pianist Dave Brubeck and bassist Jack Six perform on stage at Yankee Stadium as part of the Newport Jazz Festival held in New York City on July 07, 1972.

With the release of her debut album Black Lace Blue Tears , Seattle-based Eugenie Jones emerges as a rising jazz vocal star with a deep-rooted sense of where she's headed as an artist.

East Stroudsburg University's University Singers will present a spring vocal jazz concert at 7 p.m. Sunday in the university's Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.

When Allison Miller was growing up in Olney, someone -- she can't remember who -- gave her a copy of the Miles Davis album "Miles Smiles." That's what turned her on to small-group improvisational jazz.

IT WAS billed as Nigel Kennedy presents Bach plus Fats Waller but the spiky-haired violinist isn't one to play by the rules, even when he has set them himself.

Your Turn harks back to Marc Ribot's "Clever White Youths" in spirit, rhythm, and sardonic lyricism.