As a celebrated jazz pianist and a prolific educator, Ellis Marsalis Jr. was pivotal in shaping the 20th-century New Orleans jazz scene. Marsalis died on Wednesday at the age of 85 from complications ...

Chicago jazz piano legend Willie Pickens died this past week at age 86. Fellow musicians remember him as a talented musician and mentor to generations of jazz students. SUAREZ: Pickens arrived on the ...

Those Who Can Do, Teach: Why You Should Consider Teaching Music Online While most musicians might not see themselves as educators, prefer the idea of performing to providing lessons, this piece offers ...

Bennett Roth-Newell is a pianist/keyboardist, composer/arranger, emcee, producer, and multi-genre music educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bennett began piano lessons when he was 7 years ...

For nearly 70 years, two things have been a constant at Lenell Davis’ home in Slidell — the sound of piano music pouring from her studio and the flow of young players, from tiny 5-year-old beginners ...

Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 1437/3437/5437 (1)–Jazz Combo Please contact the music department for more information. EMUS 3642 (3)–History of Jazz Studies the ...

Jazz is complex music that even some professional musicians have difficulty playing. Yet somehow, jazz-band teachers create new jazz musicians out of youngsters who just a few years earlier knew ...

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The first note of Ray Foulkes’ weekly piano lesson is the staccato double ring of his telephone. Every Monday at 8 p.m. in the southern English town of Romsey, the basement waterproofer picks up his ...

Reppard P. “Repp” Stone, a distinguished teacher, musician and jazz composer whose arrangements were favored by such jazz greats as Ethel Ennis and Billy Eckstine , died Oct. 2 in his sleep at ...

Let's take a moment to remember the Chicago Jazz pianist Willie Pickens, who died last week at age 86. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SUAREZ: Pickens arrived on the Chicago jazz scene in 1958 and immediately ...