USC Aiken's new Steinway Spirio high-resolution player piano can be used for performances, recording, instruction, and playing recreated performances ...

David Kollar, a seasoned piano technician and owner of Kollar Piano Services in Grand Ledge, spearheaded the search for a new piano for the Capitol once the previous one deteriora ...

One of my favorite moments in John Adams’ 2008 autobiography Hallelujah Junction comes when Adams, as a teenager on the East Coast, decides to sit next to Duke Ellington on his piano bench — while ...

Thus the music career of Duke Ellington wasborn. Duke was taken under the wings of Oliver "Doc" Perry and Louis Brown, whotaught Duke how to read music and helped improve his overall piano ...

One of the highlights of the evening for McGill will be rendering an early work by Leonard Bernstein, “Sonata for Clarinet and Piano ... from Bach to Duke Ellington, to all these different ...

He recalled trying to impress Vaughan by playing an obscure Duke Ellington composition on the piano backstage. “One section of the song I didn't really know, so I was kind of working my way ...

Playing the piano at home, he would sometimes mimic the style of two different jazz greats at once, Haust said, performing the Duke Ellington standard “Sophisticated Lady” while imitating Art ...

Pianist Jason Moran and bassist Marcus Shelby promise they will go deep into the catalogue of the legendary Duke Ellington ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Connick Jr. will premiere a composition for the 100th anniversary of his mother's birth for Carnegie ...

When I reached Marcus Shelby on the phone at his home in San Francisco he was immersed in the music of Duke Ellington. Literally. “I’m surrounded by big band charts,” he said, while taking a ...