Pelt and his quintet will play at the Kennedy Center on Friday, Jan. 31.

introducing bandmates to songs by Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Playing the piano at home, he would sometimes mimic the style of two different jazz greats at once, Haust said, performing the Duke ...

This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny ...

After a few dues-paying years here, she landed the piano chair with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, touring with the great drummer from 1969-72, following up the experience with tenures in the bands ...

Many of their peers were even more prolific: The drummers Max Roach and Art Blakey put out more than ... and it remains the definitive piano trio statement of the moment. But in a faux pas of ...

“When I broke up the last quintet I had [which featured pianist Victor Gould], I was looking for another piano. But I’m ... of young talent, a la Art Blakey (although, having apprenticed ...

played on Max Roach’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and earned a brief 1969 tenure at the piano bench with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. A 1969 tour with tenor titan Sonny Rollins took Cables to ...

Leading from the piano, Pearson is accompanied by a stellar ... New Jersey-born Shorter rose to fame as a composer and tenor saxophonist for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers between 1959 and 1963 ...

His four-year tenure with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers saw the ... Fabian Almazan on piano and synthesizers, Oscar Seaton on drums and David “DJ” Ginyard on bass. What are the qualities ...

Jazz pianist Geoffrey Keezer grew up in Eau Claire, the son of two musical parents – one of who was a founding member of the ...

Jon Batiste's white piano, which wife Suleika Jaouad painted with a series of colorful butterflies, is now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Jaouad speaks with PEOPLE about her inspiration for ...