The history of the jazz piano starts in 1899. By my count, 20 pianists changed the direction of jazz over the course of 75 years. Here are 20 sample tracks in chronological order of those pianists.

We celebrate Father's Day with a special father and son episode of Piano Jazz featuring guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli with his son and fellow guitarist, guest host John Pizzarelli. Bucky Pizzarelli began ...

Ron Carter first appeared on the national scene as a member of Miles Davis' second great quintet, which coalesced around the recording of Davis' album Seven Steps to Heaven. Carter has also worked ...

This is an excellent Jazz piano chord glossary as they go. Keyboard chord glossaries containing dozens of notated chord voicings are a rather common entry on the music publishing market, but this ...

When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died. He was 75. Mr. Sample died of complications ...

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. She was 95.

Chick Corea, a creative keyboardist who spearheaded the jazz fusion movement, died Tuesday at home in Florida. He was 79. The cause was cancer, according to a statement on Corea’s website. “Chick ...

If you love the way piano adds to any track and want to give the instrument a try for yourself, pick up these beginner piano ...

It began innocently enough: a group of students from Pleasanton’s Lighthouse Baptist School visited the Stoneridge Creek Retirement Community to sing carols at Christmastime. As they were waiting in ...

"This whole show was for Tony," said Gaga at her Las Vegas residency of jazz classics on Thursday, shouting out his widow Susan Benedetto Lester Cohen/WireImage Lady Gaga is continuing to pay tribute ...