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Pianist Laurence Hobgood has been a fixture on the Chicago jazz scene for years. He has recently come to prominence as pianist, musical director and co-producer for the much-celebrated jazz singer Kurt Elling. The pianist gives an interview and performance on Piano Jazz.

Watch pianist Robert Glasper demonstrate how three samples from jazz tracks by Ahmad Jamal and Herbie Hancock served as source material for famed hip-hop producers J Dilla and Pete Rock.

The Jazz Journalists Association presents a conversation among recent JJA Awards winners: guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan, who took Duo of the Year, with the cohosts of Jazz United, which won Podcast of the Year.

The standard canon for up-and-coming jazz pianists has traditionally included the likes of Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock. But Lafayette Gilchrist did not start playing the piano until college after a childhood listening to much more funk, hip hop and go-go than jazz.

The lineup for the 70th edition of the Newport Jazz Festival on Aug. 2-4, 2024 to include headliners from both the jazz and jazz-adjacent genres.

Near the White House, in front of the Lincoln Memorial and throughout the capital, people are gathering again in what has become a focal point of the nationwide protests over police brutality.

Protesters marched to the White House on Saturday as D.C. Metropolitan Police officers and National Park Service police looked on from a distance.

Newark Academy and Jazz House Kids are among the high school bands that will compete in Essentially Ellington, in person, May 5-7.

Sung reflects on how, as a young classical pianist, she stuck to her jazz dreams. More recently, she's translated her emotions on social justice into a thematic composition for her quartet.

The National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with SFJAZZ, will honor Terri Lyne Carrington, Tootie Heath, Henry Threadgill, and Phil Schaap on April 22, 2021.