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Pianist Marian McPartland will celebrate her 90th birthday later this month. She continues to record her public radio show, Piano Jazz, and has released a new CD Twilight World. Liane Hansen recalls having the pleasure of her company 10 years ago at the piano in NPR's Studio 4A.

The internationally-hailed vocalist surprises host Marian McPartland with a lyric to her original tune "Threnody."

The percussionist dedicated this 1995 set with host Marian McPartland to his father, Thelonious Monk.

Marcia Ball bends our understanding of blues with her melding of deep southern melodies and rhythms.

The pianist shows off her compositional skills when she plays her own tune ("Hope Springs Eternally"), and she joins host Marian McPartland on "Someday My Prince Will Come."

The multi-instrumentalist joins Marian McPartland for Duke Ellington and Gershwin tunes in 1997.

This year, Abelita Mateus, Marcia Ball, Helen Sung and Joanne Brackeen create a toe-tapping meditation on peace and the holidays.

Max Roach, the pioneering jazz drummer and bebop innovator, died this week at age 83. Roach was considered the greatest drummer of all time by his peers. He played with Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk and Miles Davis.

Russian-born violinist Nataly Merezhuk explores the history of jazz in the former Soviet Union in her new album: Jazz on Bones.

Pianist and composer Pete Malinverni serves as coordinator and head of the Purchase College Conservatory of Music’s Jazz Studies Program at the State…