Right from the first scene, in which pianist Seymour Bernstein talks his way through his thought process for fingering a passage in a Scarlatti sonata, it’s gratifyingly clear that Ethan Hawke’s ...

John Magaro as Keith Jarrett in a scene from Köln 75. (Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films / Kino Lorber) For a lot of years, Vera Brandes couldn’t listen. Not once had she heard the bestselling solo jazz ...

From the moment he began playing the opening notes to his first song, Canadian pianist Tony Ann knew he had the Malaysian audience in the palm of his hand. The neo-classical sensation, who was raised ...

For Adam Jackson, the piano represents endless possibilities. “The repertoire that pianists have is just so vast. So many composers wrote some of best music for piano and even composers who didn’t ...

Sidelined and isolated like so many musicians and other people during the past year, Boston pianist Yoko Miwa wanted to do something to fill the void she and so many others were feeling. The result ...

Lang Lang is to classical music what Lady Gaga is to pop: a superstar. The young Chinese pianist burst onto the scene with youthful exuberance and an astounding technique. Critics marveled, but some ...

Jazz scholar Jim Gallert dropped me a note asking that we note the passing of the pianist, piano roll collector, fellow jazz researcher and more Mike Montgomery, who passed away the other day at age ...

The young Roman Polanski spent World War II hiding from the Nazis in Poland, but coming from a child of the Holocaust, "The Pianist" plays as a remarkably conventional film. To be sure, it's a solid, ...

Winston's successful albums for Windham Hill Records made him one of the first stars of new age music. George Winston, a pianist whose successful recordings made him one of the first stars of new age ...

Marian McPartland was the tiniest bit steamed. Here she has a Peabody Award-winning, long-running National Public Radio show, Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz — and it’s not carried in Central Florida.

George Winston, a pianist whose successful recordings made him one of the first stars of new age music, died June 4 in California after a decadeslong struggle with cancer. His death was announced on ...