Wenso Ashby is an American contemporary jazz pianist and prolific composer creating music characterized as blend of neo-soul, pop & smooth jazz. His continued love affair with music and the piano ...
The Modern Jazz Quartet’s evolution began in the Dizzy Gillespie big band of 1946. Due to the complexity of the charts and the strain that it caused in the trumpet section, Gillespie featured his ...
Dive into the lives of contemporary Canadian musicians inspired ... he wrote his four-volume Jazz Exercises and Pieces for the Young Jazz Pianist. Photo: Oscar Peterson at a piano with his brother ...
Martial Solal, a French Algerian jazz pianist who honed his fleet-fingered ... Solal also formed his own trio, releasing an album “Modern Sounds: France” in 1954. Several years later, he ...
Critics compared him to the great jazz pianist Art Tatum ... to Art Tatum in the speed of his arpeggios but thoroughly modern in his rhythmic accents and with a sense of caprice that seems ...