Keith Jarrett

A gifted trio of guitarist Anthony Wilson, drummer Jim Keltner and organist Larry Goldings treated a packed Blue Whale to a night of exploration....

Does the job you do indicate your music choice? So my boss thought it might be fun for me to ask some of my co-workers here at the station what music they listen to during the work day.  I was expecting to get a lot more current popular music than I did,...

Paul Motian, an influential and much-admired jazz drummer who first gained renown in the late 1950s as part of the Bill Evans Trio and later became a composer and the leader of his own groups, has died. He was 80. Motian died Tuesday at Mount Sinai...

Paul Motian, a beautifully subtle, versatile drummer who recorded with a wealth of jazz artists over his long career, died early Tuesday in New York City. He was 80. First rising to prominence as a member of Bill Evans' trio on landmark recordings, Paul...

Alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s revolutionary quartet stood the jazz world on its head at the end of 1959. His vigorous and intense music was in continual motion: melodically, harmonically and rhythmically. With no piano providing a chordal...

If getting on the wrong side of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano this summer gives you the jitters, then get a little French fix on this side of the ash plume, and head to Montreal. It's a beautiful destination, and English is welcome. Plus, this summer...

Charles Lloyd rested his tenor saxophone at one point at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center on Saturday night and told the audience his younger quartet mates were "the best musicians in the world." The tribute raised a grateful smile......

When Denise Donatelli was growing up in South Whitehall Township in the 1950s and 1960s, her home was a rural enclave: surrounded by farmland divided by Route 309. Denise Donatelli It was there, with no other homes around and a......

Rick Schultz reviews Simon Trpceski's recital debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall...

Two Allentown-born jazz musicians who were vying to become the first Lehigh Valley-born winner of a Grammy Award again watched others claim music’s biggest honors Sunday at the 53rd annual awards ceremony. A spoken worde album with local ties also.....

UCLA Live 2011-12 season highlights include Itzhak Perlman, Sonny Rollins and concert on global warming...

A series in Sunday Calendar about what Times writers & contributors are listening to right now... Nicolas Jaar has a fascinating lineage: He’s the son of acclaimed Chilean visual artist Alfredo Jaar and remains enrolled at Brown University as a........