The latest selection of Doug's Picks is posted in the center column, featuring a treasured vocal-piano collaboration, a new young trumpeter, an old free jazz band, a bassist at the helm of an exciting ...

Peter Erskine is recognized throughout the world as one of the most creative and expressive drummers playing in any style of music His credits range from his early days with Stan Kenton to music as ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Over the past four decades, Joe Gilman has distinguished himself as a world-class pianist, revered music educator and tireless purveyor of jazz history. Currently, a professor at American River ...

Cesar Franck—Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14 Kancheli—Silent Prayer Tickmayer—Eight Hymns in memoriam Andrei Tarkovsky A beautifully-recorded album from master violinist Gidon Kremer and his ...

The sound world of Claude Debussy anticipated much of what jazz later discovered and learned. As in "La Mer", many jazz musicians have also composed and improvised about the sea. Jazz festivals by the ...