Live At Joe’s Pub Lizzie Shapiro is inspired by the likes of Judy Garland, Maria Callas, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday.

George Shearing (eventually Sir George) was one of the first British jazz musicians to make a significant mark on the US ...

LONDON — Pianist George Shearing, who composed the iconic jazz standard "Lullaby of Birdland," and writer Michael Holroyd received knighthoods in the New Year's Honors List published today, while a ...

To survive in the jungle of jazz, a performer must be different. Not many years ago, a jazzman could accomplish this by simply playing faster or higher or crazier than the rest, or by having a “dirty” ...

What better way to end the summer than with a song? Broadway actress, vocalist and writer Melissa Errico brings her newest show, I Can Dream, Can’t I? — Songs of Love, Longing & Summertime to ...

Fletcher Henderson, a man who not only wrote but played swing music before Benny Goodman, got attention from two big labels last week, four months after his death. On a Decca LP called The Fletcher ...

Art Tatum: The Art of Jazz Piano is still the only documentary portrait of the greatest jazz pianist ever. Using photographs and some rare footage of Tatum and his contemporaries, the film ...

Performances in N.Y.C. At 83, the Argentine-Swiss pianist is at the peak of her powers. But she doesn’t want to talk about it. “I want to hide.” Argerich in Basel, Switzerland.Credit...Mischa Christen ...

Jazz reviewers call out the ‘cinematic’ or ‘filmic’ nature of McCreadie’s compositional and piano playing style- Exploratory, kinetic right hand gentle, then roiling waves of left hand foster a ...

It's the holiday season! A time for some of the finest things in life: family, good cheer and that sweet, sweet music. At the same time, though, the holidays can be a little overwhelming. Bright ...

On their first step into the unknown of club owning, it was the inestimable pianist, British-born George Shearing who helped the Mastellers make a statement. Twenty-five years ago, on March 30, 1999, ...