Jazz pianist

Review of previously unreleased live album by legendary pianist Bill Evans and his trio with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (1925-2007) Courtesy William Smith Courtesy Paul Hoeffler Peterson redefined the jazz trio by bringing the musicianship of all three members to the highest level. The trio with Ray Brown and Herb Ellis was, in his own words, "the most stimulating" and productive setting for public performances as well as in studio recordings. In the early 1950s, Peterson began performing with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as the Oscar Peterson Trio. Shortly afterward the drummer Smith…

Tommy Flanagan

The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album, and calling jazz an international — not just an American — music.

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Ray Charles, guesting on "Cher" (she's seen standing left), the CBS TV show. Ray starred in episode 10 of the second season, aired on 16 November 1975, taped on August 7. Photo by Terry O'Neill.

When I think about photography and the world of portraiture, my mind heads directly to the Master, Arnold Newman (1918 - 2006), an American photographer. It's takes a special talent to take a great portrait, conveying something about the subject, letting the viewer in on a guarded secret. It's something I'm not particularly great at…

Bobby Timmons

If it wasn't for Thelonious Monk we wouldn't have THELONIOUS MONK (1917–82), the 20th century's most individual jazz pianist and composer, voicing spaces ...

Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson (1959). From the collection: Dutch photographers. Date of creation: 1959

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Duke Ellington, Paris, Olympia Theatre 1958. Polished Herman Leonard.

Thelonious Monk (1917–1982) was a man of many hats — literally. A look at the covers for some of his most beloved albums — The Unique Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Music, Thelonious Alone in San Francisco, Monk’s Dream, It’s Monk Time, Underground, and, most recently, the long-awaited release of his soundtrack to Roger Vadim’s controversial 1960 French film […]

He collaborated with a galaxy of leading players and founded a jazz school and theatre in Manhattan